Team Leader – Thurrock Drug and Alcohol Service

Location: Thurrock

Salary: £30,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 1^st December 2025

Are you passionate about making a real difference in people’s lives? Join us in a community-based treatment setting, supporting adults with drug and alcohol challenges. You’ll be part of a service that delivers integrated, holistic interventions, covering clinical care, psycho-social support, and wellbeing programs tailored to each individual.

What you’ll do:

• Manage a small caseload and deliver client-centred treatment.
• Provide harm reduction advice and guidance.
• Conduct assessments, develop care plans, and deliver structured 1:1 and group sessions.
• Support and develop your team, providing supervision, training, and guidance.
• Occasionally conduct urine and oral swab testing to support clinical care.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, hospitals, mental health services, housing, employment, probation, police, and social services to help clients achieve lasting change.

As a Team Leader, you’ll also:

• Work with the Service Manager to ensure KPIs and outcome measures are met.
• Ensure compliance with CQC standards and safeguarding protocols.
• Foster strong relationships with partner agencies to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Support flexible service delivery, including possible evening/weekend shifts.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in substance use services and delivering structured interventions.
• Strong leadership and team development skills.
• Ability to manage caseloads, assessments, and treatment plans.
• Excellent communication and partnership-working abilities.

Make an impact, support meaningful change, and help people build a better 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/450/team-leader--thurrock-drug-and-alcohol-service.html

Contact information

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