Community Rehabilitation Programme Facilitator

Location: Essex

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full time

Closing Date: 05 Sep 2025

About The Role

Are you passionate about helping people make lasting, positive changes in their lives?
Join The Forward Trust as a Community Rehabilitation Programme Facilitator and support adults aged 18+ on their journey to recovery from drug and alcohol dependency.

As a Programme Facilitator, you’ll play a vital role in delivering the SHARP Programme, a structured, evidence-based recovery model rooted in the 12-Step Approach, delivered in a community day rehab setting. Please note this role is located in Braintree, Essex.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Facilitating daily group sessions and structured interventions.
• Managing a caseload of service users and supporting their recovery journey.
• Conducting assessments and coordinating admissions with Recovery Workers across the Essex region.
• Supporting transformational change, helping individuals build new lives in recovery.

 What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills:

• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service as it develops.
• Carry out assessments, designing and implementing SMART care plans.
• A positive problem-solving approach with the ability to focus on key issues quickly and clearly.
• Effective negotiating and influencing skills.
• The ability to engage effectively with the service user group.
• Understanding of and sensitivity to diversity and equality issues.
• Working knowledge of using Microsoft office packages and video conferencing software and ability to support service users with digital literacy.
• Understanding of 12 step approach.
• Experience and knowledge of the range of psychosocial interventions including structured programme facilitation and how they benefit the service user group we work with.
• Knowledge and experience of using client information management systems.

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 the Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/311/community-rehabilitation-programme-facilitator.html

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