Location: Southend on sea
Salary: £24,479 - £26,000 DOE
About The Role
Do you want to make a real difference in your local community?
We’re looking for a motivated and compassionate Drug & Alcohol Recovery Worker to join our integrated healthcare team in Southend-on-Sea, supporting adults affected by drug and alcohol use.
You’ll deliver client-centred psychosocial interventions, using both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches, tailored to individual needs. This is a varied, hands-on role where collaboration and outcomes really matter.
What you’ll be doing:
* Managing a caseload of adults with drug and/or alcohol needs
* Assessing, care planning and delivering structured 1:1 and group interventions
* Providing practical harm reduction advice and guidance
* Delivering structured treatment programmes to support recovery
* Working closely with partner agencies including Housing, Employment, Healthcare, Probation and CRCs
* Contributing to performance targets and outcome measurement set by Forward and local commissioners
What we’re looking for:
* A flexible, person-centred approach to recovery support
* Strong partnership working skills and a collaborative mindset
* Willingness to work occasional evenings/weekends (with reasonable notice) to ensure continuity of care
If you’re passionate about recovery and want to support people to move forward in Southend-on-Sea, we’d love to hear from you.
About Us
We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits -
* Flexible working
* Training and development opportunities
* Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
* Season Ticket Loan Scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Crisis Loan Scheme
* Electric Car Scheme
* 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
* Access to Blue Light Card
* 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
* Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
* Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
* Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application
Salary description
£24479.00 - £26000.00 per year