Recovery Coordinator

Location: Thurrock

Salary:  £25,000 - £27,000 DOE

Vacancy Type: Permanent

About The Role

Be the difference in someone’s recovery journey.

We’re seeking an experienced and motivated Recovery Coordinator in Thurrock to join our integrated healthcare service delivering psychosocial drug and alcohol interventions to adults aged 18+. This full-time (35 Hours) role offers the opportunity to make a genuine impact within a supportive, outcome-focused environment.

Working within a multi-disciplinary framework, you’ll provide person-centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches, tailoring support to individual recovery goals while promoting safety, stability and long-term change.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Managing and prioritising a varied caseload
• Completing risk, initial and comprehensive assessments
• Developing, reviewing and updating structured care plans
• Delivering engaging 1:1 interventions and structured group programmes
• Providing practical harm reduction advice and health risk management
• Coordinating care with healthcare, housing, probation, employment and family support services
• Motivating clients to engage with community and specialist support
• Contributing to KPIs and measurable service outcomes

What We’re Looking For

• Experience within the substance misuse field, either directly or indirectly
• Strong assessment, care planning and risk management skills
• Confidence delivering structured interventions in both 1:1 and group settings
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet performance targets
• A collaborative, solution-focused mindset
• Commitment to safeguarding, quality standards and continuous professional development
• Flexibility to work occasional evenings/weekends with reasonable notice

You’ll be part of a forward-thinking team that values reflective practice, partnership working and real, measurable impact. This is more than a job; it’s an opportunity to help people rebuild their lives while developing your own professional expertise.

If you’re ready to support change that lasts, we’d love 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)

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/547/recovery-coordinator.html

Contact information

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