Pathways to Employment: Your guide to a career in substance use services
This toolkit brings a range of information and support together into one resource for people with lived and living experience of substance use looking to pursue careers in the drug and alcohol sector.
Using your lived experience of substance use to help others
Substance use services across Scotland need people with lived experience to help support others. Working in this field can be rewarding and by helping others, you can also strengthen your own recovery.
Your personal experiences can bring incredible value, but please know that you are not required to share your lived experience if you do not want to. Only in specific roles, might sharing your experience be expected.
Below shows one potential pathway to employment, but there are many different routes you can take to begin working in substance use services. This toolkit will help you understand which one is right for you.
1 Engagement with recovery services
2 Volunteering with services
3 Apply for and secure full-time employment
4 Apply for and secure part-time employment
5 Progression to supervisor/team leader roles