Work With Us
When you work at Ara, you’re working for an exciting and diverse organisation that’s passionate about recovery. We’re unique because of our people and the drive they bring to making positive changes in people’s lives. Our values – Aspiring, Brave, Competent and Determined – underpin everything that we do.
Our Employee Value Proposition describes the set of benefits that we offer employees in return for the skills, experience and qualities that they bring to the charity. Download our Employee Value Proposition here.
We offer a range of roles across our diverse services, and each allows you to use your skills, experience, and dedication within a forward thinking and exciting charity. Help us to make a difference.
Ara has been accredited as a Living Wage Employer. The real Living Wage rates are higher because they are independently-calculated based on what people need to get by. You can find out more about the UK Living Wage here.
Current Vacancies
Ara Board Member
Contract/Hours: Upon application
Based: UK-wide
Salary: Reasonable expenses will be reimbursed
Closing Date: Ongoing
Ara Board Member
Could You, Join Ara at this Exciting Time of Development?
We are searching for dynamic individuals who can assist Ara as members of Board of Trustees in the oversight of the delivery of our ambitious new strategic plan, “Springboard for Growth”
This plan will increase our financial performance, geographical expansion and ensure we achieve our purpose of “Making life better because we believe passionately that people can change and recover”
We are looking for people from all parts of our community to join our experienced and dedicated Board of Trustees to achieve our vison of continuing to be a “vibrant organisation and by 2023 we will:- be working with 50% more beneficiaries; be financially robust with income from a diverse range of sources; increasingly collaborate with like-minded partners; be recognised nationally for excellence; be an employer of choice. As an organisation we will continue to innovate and will have expanded our services geographically.
Ara is looking for individuals from all parts of our community with the following attributes, experience, skills and connections in the following sectors:
- Higher Education
- Building Development
- Human Recourses
- Public Relations
The posts are not remunerated but reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.
To apply, please tell us about the connections, skills and experience you will bring to this role and enclose a C.V. Send to our Chief Executive, Graham England at grahamengland@recovery4all.co.uk
Information about Ara and the role can be downloaded here:
Interviews will be held at our head office at Kings Court, Kings Street, Bristol, BS1 4EF
For an informal discussion about these exciting opportunities please speak to our Chair Tony Collins on 07768 647400
Ara is a registered charity number 1002224.
Ara is working towards equal opportunities.
Quality & Compliance Manager
Contract/Hours: 35 hours per week
Based: Kings Court, Bristol
Salary: £45,980 – £49,420
Quality & Compliance Manager
QUALITY & COMPLIANCE MANAGER
Based – Kings Court, Bristol
Salary – £45,980 to £49,420
At Ara we are seeking an enthusiastic, inspiring, and experienced Quality & Compliance Manager to join our team based in Bristol. The successful postholder will drive the companywide policies and quality assurance agenda. You will ensure that we are compliant within our Recovery Support Charity.
At Ara, we want to offer more than just a good salary. We are committed to providing an excellent and inclusive culture, development opportunities and training, support through challenging work, and much more.
This role is key to ensuring our services remain in line with our purpose, and ultimately supporting our commitment to beneficiaries, staff, the Board of Trustees, and commissioners including GambleAware, NHS England and Bristol City Council.
Ideal candidate
Due to the wide remit of this role, we are looking for a Quality, Risk and Compliance professional who is highly motivated, with a passion for all things compliance. You need to be results-driven, whilst effectively communicating and influencing at all levels, liaising with key stakeholders, both internally and externally. The right candidate will share our values and ethos for success and have our services users at the heart of what we do.
You will have a bachelor’s degree in law, business administration, or a similar discipline, and have experience working as a Quality & Compliance Manager (or similar), ideally in a charity.
Skills and knowledge required include being proficient in industry trends, compliance laws and regulations, risk management and audit processes. You must be analytical, enjoying problem-solving, and have a good knowledge of H&S legislation, ISO, GDPR and how to best manage quality and compliance projects.
Some of the key tasks for this role include:
- Supervise all business processes that involve compliance and regulations, including dealing with the regulators.
- Carry operational audits to find gaps in the current strategies, investigating then rectifying with timely actions where required.
- Evaluate audit findings and prepare comprehensive audit reports, highlighting risks.
- Establish a Quality Management System, which provides a framework for setting and achieving measurable Q&C objectives.
- Advise internal management and business partners on the implementation of quality and compliance programs and developing risk management strategies.
- Conduct regular GAP analysis on new and updated controls and best practices.
- Run appropriate training programs for employees on compliance laws and regulations.
- Be Ara’s Company Secretary, ensuring compliance with financial, legal, and corporate governance, and liaising with legal professionals.
- Oversee Ara’s sustainability and ESG ambitions.
- Work with the Finance Director to establish and review annual budgets and provide cost plans to support decision making.
- Carry out all typical line management responsibilities of any future staff who may report into this role.
In return we offer:
- A competitive and benchmarked salary.
- A 35-hour working week to promote a healthy work-life balance, with flexible working.
- Up to 32 days annual leave, in addition to all UK bank holidays.
- A pension scheme, comprehensive training, and a 24hr Employee Assistance Program.
- Meaningful and fulfilling work that makes a real difference to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
To apply, please email recruitment@recovery4all.co.uk with your up to date CV and covering letter, explaining why you wish to work for Ara, what transferable skills you can bring to the role and what you see may be the biggest challenges within the first year of the role.
Closing date for applications – Friday 22nd March 2024. (but applications will be considered as they come in, as we are keen to fill this post without unnecessary delay).
If shortlisted, first stage will be a 15-minute phone interview.
If you wish to ask any questions about the role or simply to arrange an informal chat, please call us on 0330 1340 286.
For more information about Ara, please visit www.recovery4all.co.uk
Housing First – Team Leader
Contract/Hours: 35 hours per week
Based: Kings Court, Bristol
Salary: £36,476
Housing First – Team Leader
Housing First – Team Leader
We are seeking a Housing First Team Leader to work within our housing team. This position is full-time (35 hours per week).
Based – Kings Court Bristol
Salary – £36,476
We are looking for a talented leader with significant experience of supporting clients facing multiple disadvantage to be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of the Ara Housing First (HF) contract.
This role involves providing leadership and guidance to the Ara Housing First Practitioners together with holding a caseload of HF clients who have histories of entrenched or repeat rough sleeping, often with multiple and serious support needs, for whom traditional homelessness approaches have not been successful.
This role involves providing leadership and guidance to the Ara Housing First Practitioners, promoting a positive culture and partnership working, and supervising the delivery of a service with a high level of fidelity to the Housing First principles. Some of the key tasks for this role include to:
- Provide a high level of guidance, support, and case management for the Housing First Workers, ensuring that a person-centred, trauma informed, and strength-based approach is implemented.
- Work with the Ara Housing Manager to ensure all relevant commissioner reporting is completed to high quality, and in a timely manner.
- Deliver wrap-around intensive, trauma informed support to people with multiple and complex issues within their own independent tenancies in the community (caseload = 5 max).
Essential skills and experience needed include:
- Significant experience of supporting clients facing multiple disadvantage including homelessness.
- Significant experience of leading a team within a similar industry.
- Have a good understanding of housing and tenancy legislation and policies.
- Experience of developing partnerships and working with agencies across sectors in relation to homelessness, substance mis-use, offending behaviour, and mental health.
- Driving license and own vehicle.
In return we offer:
- A competitive and benchmarked salary.
- A 35-hour working week to promote a healthy work-life balance, with flexible working.
- Up to 32 days annual leave, as well as all UK bank holidays.
- A pension scheme, comprehensive training, and a 24hr Employee Assistance Program.
- Meaningful and fulfilling work that makes a real difference to some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
To apply, please read the job description and email recruitment@recovery4all.co.uk with a CV and covering letter and consider the below questions. Applicants without a covering letter will not be considered.
Application questions:
- Do you have significant experience of supporting clients facing multiple disadvantage including homelessness?
- Do you have significant experience of leading a team within a similar industry?
- Do you have a good understanding of housing and tenancy legislation and policies?
- Do you have experience of developing partnerships and working with agencies across sectors in relation to homelessness, substance mis-use, offending behaviour and mental health?
Closing date for applications – Friday 19th April 2024. (but we will interview suitable candidates immediately. If shortlisted, first stage will be a 15-minute phone interview.
If you have further questions, please call us on 0330 1340 286. For more information about Ara, please visit www.recovery4all.co.uk
Housing Support Worker
Contract/Hours: 35 hours per week
Based: Kings Court, Bristol
Salary: £29,181
Housing Support Worker
Housing Support Worker
We are seeking a Housing Support Worker, working within our housing team. This position is full-time (35 hours per week) but part time will be considered.
Based – Kings Court Bristol
Salary – £ 29,181 (Fixed Term Contract to end March 2025)
We are looking for people who are passionate about tackling homelessness and promoting recovery to join our team.
The role will be to support clients at various stages of recovery from drug and alcohol addiction in a trauma informed way in our supported accommodation across Bristol. Reporting to one of the two Deputy Housing Managers, the successful candidate will have experience of building strong relationships with people, and the desire to help the most vulnerable people in our society get back on their feet.
Our Housing Support Workers are key to delivering our vision of supporting an increasing number of clients into recovery from homelessness and addiction. Some of the key tasks for this role include to:
- Support clients on a one-to-one basis in Ara housing across Bristol
- Develop housing support plans that meet the identified needs of the Service User for the complete recovery journey.
- Ensure that the estates management requirements and quality improvement plans are delivered to the highest possible standard.
- Keep up with current services, organisations and community resources that meet client needs (including peer mentoring).
- Take a strengths-based approach to helping people to make a change.
- Work with clients to improve self-sufficiency, re-integrate into the community, and achieve successful move-on from the service.
In return we offer:
- A competitive and benchmarked salary.
- A 35 hour working week to promote a healthy work-life balance, with flexible working.
- Up to 32 days annual leave, as well as all UK bank holidays.
- A pension scheme, comprehensive training, and a 24hr Employee Assistance Program.
- Meaningful and fulfilling work that makes a real difference to some of the most vulnerable people in our society
To apply, please read the job description email recruitment@recovery4all.co.uk with a CV and covering letter. For more information about Ara, please visit www.recovery4all.co.uk
Closing date for applications – May 3 but we will interview suitable candidates on application following a brief telephone interview
Counsellor
Contract/Hours: 35 hours per week
Based: Kings Court, Bristol
Salary: £34,651
Counsellor
Counsellor
Salary: £34,651
Contract/Hours: 35 hours a week/ Permanent contract
Based: Remote working
To take the role of Counselling Practitioner within ARA’s Gambling Services. Providing individual counselling, by telephone and face to face for clients affected by problem gambling. Working to ARA’s Gambling Service Guidelines, providing counselling interventions for self-referred clients to the service. Counsellor needs to be based in Southwest England or Wales.
Closing date: Friday 3rd May, 10 am.
To apply, please read the Job Description and the Person Specification and email recruitment@recovery4all.co.uk with a CV and covering letter. Applicants without a covering letter will not be considered.
ARA, registered charity number 1002224. ARA is working towards equal opportunities.
Gambling Access Lead
Contract/Hours: 35 hours per week
Based: Kings Court, Bristol
Salary: £34,651
Gambling Access Lead
Gambling Access Lead
Salary: £34.651
Contract/Hours: 35 hours per week /permanent contract / shifts between 9am – 8pm
Based: Bristol
Ara is looking for a full time dynamic and motivated gambling access lead to join the treatment team on a full-time basis to support those experiencing gambling harms or those affected by someone else’s gambling.
The gambling access lead will work within the treatment team and work closely with the wider Ara team to facilitate smooth and efficient referrals into treatment, provide comprehensive assessments to service users at the beginning of their support journey and manage risk and safeguarding concerns.
Closing date: Friday 3rd May 2024
To apply, please read the Job Description and the Person Specification and email recruitment@recovery4all.co.uk with a CV and covering letter. Applicants without a covering letter will not be considered.
ARA, registered charity number 1002224. ARA is working towards equal opportunities.
Gambling Access Lead
Contract/Hours: 35 hours per week
Based: South Wales
Salary: £34,651
Gambling Access Lead
Gambling Access Lead
Salary: £34.651
Contract/Hours: 35 hours per week / permanent contract / shifts between 9am – 8pm
Based: South Wales
Ara is looking for a full time dynamic and motivated gambling access lead to join the treatment team on a full-time basis to support those experiencing gambling harms or those affected by someone else’s gambling.
The gambling access lead will work within the treatment team and work closely with the wider Ara team to facilitate smooth and efficient referrals into treatment, provide comprehensive assessments to service users at the beginning of their support journey and manage risk and safeguarding concerns.
Closing date: Friday 3rd May 2024
To apply, please read the Job description and the Person Specification and email recruitment@recovery4all.co.uk with a CV and covering letter. Applicants without a covering letter will not be considered.
ARA, registered charity number 1002224. ARA is working towards equal opportunities.