Location: Southend on Sea
Salary: £26,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Closing Date: 19th June 2026
An exciting opportunity to join a dynamic Recovery Support Team in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, working closely with the STARS recovery community. This is a full-time role (35 hours per week) where you’ll play a key part in supporting individuals on their recovery journey across the wider Southend area.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, empathetic, and motivated practitioner with a strong understanding of professional boundaries and ideally lived experience or knowledge of recovery and the local community.
You’ll work alongside the BRiC Coordinator and wider multi-agency partners to deliver person-centred recovery support and help build strong pathways into and through recovery services.
What you’ll be doing
Carrying a small caseload of recovery support clients
Delivering 1:1 sessions, group work, and structured recovery interventions
Facilitating welcome PODS and lived experience workshops
Supporting recovery groups and service user involvement activities
Working with partners to develop community recovery pathways
Supporting assessments, care planning, and harm reduction approaches
Helping clients access housing, benefits, training, and employment support
Contributing to outcome-focused targets and service improvement
What we’re looking for
Passion for recovery-focused, community-based support
Ability to work confidently in a multi-agency environment
Strong relationship-building and motivational skills
Understanding of harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches
Organised, reflective, and committed to professional development
Experience in recovery services or lived experience of recovery would be highly desirable.
Be part of a supportive and purpose-driven team making a real impact, helping individuals rebuild their lives, strengthen recovery, and reconnect with their communities.
Please see attached Job Description for full details
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
BHSF 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 proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your
Salary description
£26000.00 - £26000.00 per year