job vacancies & Volunteer opportunties
When you choose to join The Well, your choice is more than just a job - you are choosing to make a genuine difference in people's lives.
We believe in equal opportunities for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their full potential. By becoming part of our innovative teams you will be contributing to making this happen.
Changing Futures Navigators (x2)
Location: Based in Morecambe (Covering North Lancashire)
Hours: 37.5 hrs per week
Payscale: £24,200 - £27,500 per annum
Accountable to: Changing Futures Senior Navigator
Contract: FTC ending 31.3.26 (with potential to further extension)
The Well Communities CIC work with a number of partner agencies to provide the ‘Changing Futures’ Lancashire programme. The programme aims to work with beneficiaries who experience multiple areas of disadvantage and are disengaged from services. Our team of Lived Experience Navigators provide outreach in the community to engage with beneficiaries and ‘navigate’ them into services across our community.
You will work as part of the Lived Experience Navigator team across North Lancashire and in partnership with colleagues from mental health, probation, police, local authority and others. You will identify and provide outreach support in the community to a range of beneficiaries with multiple support needs, with an aim of navigating them into appropriate services in the area. Our approach is key to this, and you will use your Lived Experience to build strong relationships with our beneficiaries and provide person-centred support to achieve their goals.
For an informal discussion please contact Kate Aspinall - Lancashire Operations Manager on 07481 979851
To request an application form, please email hr@thewell2.co.uk, alternatively download the form provided below.
Closing date is Friday 7th March 2025.
Job Description/Person Specification
Community Connector
Location: North Lancashire - covering Fleetwood & St Annes
Hours: 37.5 hrs
Payscale: £24,200 - £27,500 per annum
Accountable to: New You Project Lead
Contract: 30 September 2025 (potential for extension subject to funding)
As a Community Connector you will have a specific remit to work alongside residents in our supported accommodation, deliver Psychosocial Interventions (Psi’s, online and face to face) and provide a live connection between local communities, asset based and health and wellbeing opportunities and treatment services. You will work as part of the Behaviour Change Team Partnership, to open up opportunities and widen access beyond treatment services. You will work to develop relationships with voluntary and community groups, partner agencies, scoping and identifying underserved areas and will have a specific remit to work with communities in an asset-based manner.
You will also support those accessing and leaving treatment services to promote positive behaviour change, influence individuals and communities to make healthier lifestyles choices, develop self-care & management skills, build individual’s recovery capital and mobilise communities to become more resilient and self-sufficient.
This is a key role which will increase the number of people from within the community who at present, do not access interventions from treatment services, supporting them to engage in positive behaviour change, engage in opportunities that will increase wellbeing, resilience and the ability to self-care.
For an informal discussion please contact Mark Wilson - New You Project Lead on 07367 349093.
To request an application form, please email hr@thewell2.co.uk, alternatively download the form provided below.
Closing date is Friday 7th March March 2025.
Job Description/Person Specification
Carers Addiction Recovery Worker
Location: Cumberland, Carlisle
Hours: 15 hrs per week
Payscale: £24,200 - £27,500 per annum
Accountable to: Operations Manager
Contract: Fixed Term Contract to 30/06/2026
As the Cumbria Carers Addiction Service Recovery Worker, you will be based in Cumberland, Carlisle and be required to deliver group and one to one interventions to clients within the cohort of the carers addiction service. Predominantly this contract supports family members and significant others whose love ones are experiencing SMD – Substance Misuse Disorder. We provide interventions to facilitate long term behavioural change within the substance misuse, mental health, and wellbeing fields. We adopt a mid-point allegiance, which means we work with voluntary and statutory treatment providers to build the skills and capacity of people with lived experience to coproduce/deliver the services through coaching, micro employment, and volunteering
For an informal discussion please contact Trish McKitterick - Lancashire Operations Manager on
To request an application form, please email hr@thewell2.co.uk, alternatively download the form provided below.
Closing date is Friday 14th March 2025.
Job Description/Person Specification
Tenancy Sustainment Worker
Location: Cumberland, Carlisle
Hours: 37.5 hrs
Payscale: £24,200 - £27,500 per annum
Accountable to: Tenancy Sustainment Manager
Contract: 12 month rolling contract
The post holder will have a specific remit to work with an identified cohort of service users with multiple, complex needs. Under the leadership of the Tenancy Sustainment Manager, you will assist in the provision of effective, high quality intensive housing management and support services to vulnerable individuals with little social or recovery capital. The cohort includes individuals with additional support needs including offending behaviour, domestic violence, substance misuse and mental ill health, making them vulnerable to homelessness. Supporting individuals in assessing their needs to identify opportunities to engage them creatively and actively with support to facilitate the practical skills, personal growth and development necessary to live independently. A 12 Step Recovery program will form a key part of a holistic approach to recovery and wellbeing.
For an application form please contact hr@thewell2.co.uk. For an informal discussion or further details please call Senior Tenancy Sustainment Worker Scott Croxford 01228 217215.
Closing date is Friday 14th March 2025 at 5pm
Job Description/Person Specification
Tenancy Sustainment Worker
Location: Barrow
Hours: 37.5 hrs
Payscale: £24,200 - £27,500 per annum
Accountable to: Tenancy Sustainment Manager
Contract: 12 month rolling contract
The post holder will have a specific remit to work with an identified cohort of service users with multiple, complex needs. Under the leadership of the Tenancy Sustainment Manager, you will assist in the provision of effective, high quality intensive housing management and support services to vulnerable individuals with little social or recovery capital. The cohort includes individuals with additional support needs including offending behaviour, domestic violence, substance misuse and mental ill health, making them vulnerable to homelessness. Supporting individuals in assessing their needs to identify opportunities to engage them creatively and actively with support to facilitate the practical skills, personal growth and development necessary to live independently. A 12 Step Recovery program will form a key part of a holistic approach to recovery and wellbeing.
For an application form please contact hr@thewell2.co.uk. For an informal discussion or further details please call Jason Sutton Tenancy Sustainment Manager on 07951 472316.
Closing date is Friday 14th March 2025 at 5pm
Job Description/Person Specification
Administrator
Locations: Morecambe
Hours: 15 - 22.5hrs per week
Payscale: £23,400 - £27,500
Accountable to: Housing Manager
This is an exciting opportunity to join our team based in Morecambe, whilst supporting the wider administration team for The Well Communities CIC. This is a key role which will support general administration functions and also the housing team.
You will support the housing manager with the processing of housing benefit claims, complete weekly payment checks and follow up any late payments with housing benefit. You will also support the wider Administration team as directed. (see full Job Description).
To request an application form, please email hr@thewell2.co.uk, alternatively download the form provided below.
Job Description/Person Specification
REACH Support Worker
Location: Central Lancashire (Covering Chorley & Skelmersdale)
Hours: Part Time
Payscale: £23,400 - £27,500 per annum
Accountable to: Project Lead
Contract: 30 September 2025 (potential for extension subject to funding)
The post holder will have a specific remit to work with an identified cohort of service users with multiple, complex and additional needs. The role will increase access to relevant health and social care provision for this cohort. Please see job description for more information.
For an informal conversation, please contact Mark Wilson New You Project Lead on 07367 349093.
To request an application form, please email hr@thewell2.co.uk, alternatively download the form provided below.
Job Description/Person Specification
Female 12-Step Behaviour Change Facilitator/ Supported Housing Colleague
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
Hours: 22.5 hrs pw
Payscale: £23,400-£27,500 per annum (Pro rata)
Accountable to: Tenancy Sustainment Manager
Contract: 1 Year
As a 12-step Behavioural Change Facilitator/ Supported Housing Colleague, you will have a specific remit to work with an identified cohort of service users with multiple, complex needs. Under the leadership of the Tenancy Sustainment Manager, you will assist in the provision of effective, high-quality intensive housing management and support services to vulnerable individuals with little social or recovery capital.
The cohort includes individuals with additional support needs including offending behaviour, domestic violence, substance misuse and mental ill health, making them vulnerable to homelessness. Supporting individuals in assessing their needs to identify opportunities to engage them creatively and actively with support to facilitate the practical skills, personal growth and development necessary to live independently.
A 12-step recovery program will form a key part of a holistic approach to recovery and wellbeing and the experience of participation in such models of recovery is essential to this post.
To request an application form, please email hr@thewell2.co.uk.
Job Description/Person Specification
Volunteer Van Driver
Location: Barrow
Hours: 7 hrs per Week on a Saturday
Accountable to: Tenancy Sustainment Manager
We are looking for a volunteer who can help assist our community members to take members to the Saturday hub in Lancaster. If you like variety and want to meet new people, this could be the role for you! Our community relies on our volunteers to keep them running successfully. But one thing that never changes is that we need volunteers to help us to spread the power of kindness.
Duties include:
Saturday – Transporting residents to our hub in Lancaster and collection, returning to the hub in Morecambe.
An opportunity to be part of The Well Communities CIC and the knowledge that you are making a positive difference to people’s lives.
Requirements:
· A clean driving licence and able to drive a 15-seater minibus.
· Contribute to maintaining safe systems of work and a safe environment.
For an application form, please contact hr@thewell2.co.uk