Recovery Worker

Overview

Recovery Worker –

Location:

Ashford. Salary: £26,000 per annum. Vacancy Type:
Permanent.

• Work within an integrated healthcare framework to support adults experiencing drug and alcohol dependency, delivering high-quality, client-centred psychosocial interventions using harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches tailored to individual needs.
• Manage a caseload of service users, carrying out comprehensive assessments, developing SMART care plans, and delivering structured one-to-one and group interventions.
• Support individuals through their recovery journey, aiming to improve outcomes and promote long-term positive change.
• Collaborate with a wide range of partner agencies (housing, employment services, healthcare providers, probation services, and community rehabilitation companies) to ensure continuity of care and address wider factors affecting recovery.
• Contribute to achieving organisational and commissioner targets, including measuring and evidencing successful outcomes.
• Maintain accurate records, use IT systems effectively, and build strong multi-agency relationships.
• Be flexible to work evenings or weekends and travel to different service locations as needed to ensure continuity of care.

• You are a committed and empathetic professional with experience in substance misuse services and a strong understanding of the challenges faced by individuals affected by drug and alcohol dependency.
• You have experience conducting comprehensive assessments, managing risk, and developing and implementing SMART care plans. You are confident in delivering structured interventions, both one-to-one and in group settings, and are skilled in using motivational interviewing techniques to support behaviour change.
• You understand the importance of holistic, person-centred care and can work effectively with partner agencies to support recovery outcomes. You are knowledgeable about safeguarding, equality and diversity, and the wider recovery agenda.
• You have strong IT and organisational skills, with the ability to manage a caseload, maintain accurate records, and meet performance targets. You are a strong communicator who can build trust and rapport with a diverse range of service users.
• Ideally, you will have a Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care (or equivalent), along with knowledge of the 12-step recovery model, community support services, and the criminal justice sector. Experience in prison or community settings, or lived experience of recovery (with appropriate time in sustained recovery), would be advantageous.
• You are motivated, flexible, and passionate about supporting individuals to make meaningful and lasting changes in their lives.

We are The Forward Trust, a social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break cycles of crime and addiction and move forward with their lives. We have worked with people for more than 25 years to build positive and productive lives, and we believe that lasting change is possible for anyone.

• 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 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)