Recovery Navigator

Location: Hillingdon, London

Salary: £25,207 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 24^th November 2025

As a Recovery Navigator, you’ll play a vital role in bridging the gap between Probation Services and community-based substance misuse support. Working within a flexible, multi-disciplinary team, you’ll travel across Ealing & Hillingdon, Brent, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster, delivering face-to-face support within local Probation Delivery Units.

This is an in-person service, so you’ll spend most of your time out in the community across these boroughs, helping individuals engage with treatment and supporting their recovery journey.

What You’ll Do

You’ll manage a diverse caseload of adult men leaving prison or on community orders, providing practical, emotional, and motivational support. Day to day, you will:

• Carry out comprehensive assessments and create collaborative action plans.
• Deliver one-to-one, group, and virtual recovery sessions.
• Provide advocacy and practical support, from completing referral forms and attending appointments to liaising with service providers.
• Offer advice, guidance, and information that empowers people on probation to take control of their recovery.
• Deliver targeted interventions to build skills, confidence, and understanding of dependency and recovery needs.
• Work closely with probation staff, treatment providers, and community partners to sustain engagement and reduce reoffending.
• This service complements, rather than duplicates, existing substance misuse provision, ensuring access to the right support at the right time.

About You

• We’re looking for someone who is compassionate, proactive, and resilient, with:
• Strong communication and advocacy skills.
• Experience supporting people with substance misuse, offending behaviour, or complex needs.
• The ability to manage a busy caseload and maintain accurate records.
• Flexibility to travel between multiple London boroughs as part of your working week.

You’ll be part of a mission-driven team at Forward, working to empower people to make lasting positive change. We offer a supportive environment, ongoing training, and opportunities to develop your skills while making a real difference in London communities.

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/443/recovery-navigator.html

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