Recovery Worker

Position: Recovery Worker (Permanent)
Recovery Worker

Location:

Canterbury
Salary: £24,000 per annum
Vacancy Type:
Permanent
Advertising End Date: 04 Mar 2026
About

The Role
We’re looking for a passionate, driven Recovery Worker to join our integrated healthcare team on a Full Time (35 Hours) basis delivering high-quality psychosocial drug and alcohol interventions for adults.
This is more than a job, it’s an opportunity to support individuals on their recovery journey using client-centred, evidence-based approaches that balance harm reduction and abstinence, tailored to individual need.
You’ll manage a dynamic caseload, delivering structured 1:1 and group interventions while working collaboratively across healthcare, housing, probation, employment and community services to ensure holistic support.
You’ll play a key part in achieving service targets, measuring outcomes, and maintaining high standards of care, quality, and compliance.
What You’ll Be Doing

* Conducting risk, initial and comprehensive assessments

* Developing and reviewing person-centred care plans

* Delivering structured 1:1 sessions and group programmes

* Providing harm reduction advice and health risk management

* Coordinating care with healthcare and partner agencies

* Supporting clients with housing, benefits, employment and training referrals

* Monitoring progress and reviewing treatment plans

* Meeting KPIs and contributing to service performance targets

* Maintaining high-quality case management documentation (including NDTMS reporting)

* Participating in audits, safeguarding processes, and reflective supervision
What We’re Looking For

* Experience working with substance misuse and complex needs

* Strong assessment and case management skills

* Confidence delivering group-work and structured programmes

* Ability to build effective multi-agency partnerships

* Strong IT and record-keeping skills

* A proactive, solution-focused mindset

* Commitment to safeguarding, quality, and continuous professional development
You’ll be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team where reflective supervision, strong line management support and continuous professional development are prioritised.
We offer ongoing training (including safeguarding refreshers), opportunities to work flexibly where service needs require (including occasional evenings and weekends), and the chance to work across cluster services to ensure continuity of care. Most importantly, you’ll have the opportunity to make a tangible difference every single day.
If you’re motivated by impact, thrive in integrated services, and are committed to empowering people to achieve sustainable recovery, we want 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)
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application