Addictions Counsellor

Location: Clouds House

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 29^th August 2025

Are you passionate about supporting individuals through recovery and committed to making a lasting difference? Join the dedicated Counselling Team at Clouds House, where you’ll be part of a respected and structured therapeutic community helping clients begin their recovery journey.

As an Addictions Counsellor, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver our intensive, structured treatment programme. This is a role that blends hands-on therapeutic delivery with continued professional development and reflective practice.

Please note the working hours for this role are 9-5 Monday to Sunday. It is a 35 hours per week contract with the expectation that two weekend days per month are covered. 

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate interpersonal group therapy and 12-step study groups
• Deliver psychoeducational workshops and individual case management sessions
• Build strong, recovery-focused therapeutic alliances
• Share clinical insights with the wider team to ensure safe, coordinated client care
• Maintain professional standards in line with clinical and regulatory guidelines

Ideal Candidate

• We are looking for an individual with the skills knowledge and experience below
• Knowledge of addiction and its impact
• Ability to work with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint,
• Ability to learn new systems including to input onto electronic record management systems
• Experience of working with at times distressed individuals, listen to their needs and communicate respectfully and clearly
• Experience of thinking creatively with the team to create meaningful outcomes for clients and family members
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team

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/298/addictions-counsellor.html

Contact information

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