Recovery Navigator

Location: Liverpool

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time (Part Time may be considered)

Closing Date: 10^th December 2025

Are you passionate about helping people rebuild their lives? Forward Trust is seeking a Recovery Navigator to join our Recovery Support Team in Liverpool, supporting service users on their recovery journey. This role will involve regular travel to HMP Stoke Heath and occasional visits to other Forward Trust units.

We are looking for a full-time Recovery Navigator, but we are happy to consider part-time candidates. Flexible weekend and evening working will be required on an ad-hoc basis to ensure continuity of support for service users.

We take a person-centred approach, working with multiple agencies to provide holistic, multidisciplinary support. As a Recovery Navigator, you’ll be multi-skilled, flexible, and ready to provide support across a range of needs, helping service users transition, thrive, and sustain their recovery.

What you’ll do:

• Provide group workshops, one-to-one’s and recovery coaching sessions for service users with substance misuse issues at all levels of complexity.
• Work across Forward Trust services to respond to changing demand.
• Support the facilitation of meet and greets to ensure service users safely reach their release destination/ appointments if in prison or further treatment ie residential rehab if in the community.
• Support the development of our Forward Connect peer led network both locally and nationally.
• Support with the coordination of regular per led Forward Connect activities and events including sports and arts both locally and nationally.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with partner agencies and internal staff.
• Adhere to targets set by Forward Trust, with ongoing guidance from line management.

What we’re looking for:

• Commitment to a person-centred approach and supporting recovery.
• Flexibility, resilience, and ability to work across multiple services.
• Strong communication and partnership-building skills.
• Ability to work independently while staying connected with your manager and team.

Join The Forward Trust and make a real difference in people’s lives. Full-time or part-time, your skills could help someone rebuild their future.

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)

Diversity at Forward Trust

The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.

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/442/recovery-navigator--full-time-part-time-may-be-considered.html

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