Team Leader (12 months fixed -term maternity cover) Northwest London

Location: London

Salary: £30,082 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

About The Role

Are you passionate about supporting people on their recovery journey and ready to take on a leadership challenge? We’re offering an exciting fixed-term maternity cover opportunity for a Team Leader within our Dependency and Recovery Services.

This is your chance to lead a skilled team of practitioners, drive high-quality service delivery, and strengthen the vital links between probation and community substance misuse services.

What You’ll Do

• Provide visible, hands-on leadership to a multi-disciplinary team delivering support to adult males under probation supervision.
• Travel across boroughs - working from probation delivery units in Ealing & Hillingdon, Brent, Hammersmith & Fulham, and Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster.
• Manage referrals, oversee performance targets, and ensure services meet both Forward Trust and Commissioner standards.
• Support your team with coaching, supervision, and development, ensuring they thrive and deliver the best outcomes.
• Handle a small number of complex cases, maintaining high-quality records and data accuracy.
• Collaborate closely with probation practitioners, prisons, community partners, and stakeholders to keep services running smoothly.
• Deputise for the Service Manager when required, ensuring operational continuity across the service.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Experience working within substance misuse, criminal justice, or related support services.
• A proactive, flexible approach, comfortable working across multiple sites and teams.
• Excellent communication, organisation, and problem-solving abilities.
• A commitment to empowering others and making every contact matter.

You’ll be joining a dedicated, values-driven organisation that believes in second chances and lasting recovery. You’ll have the autonomy to make an impact, supported by a collaborative management team and opportunities for development and progression.

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)

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/453/team-leader-12-months-fixed-term-maternity-cover-northwest-london.html

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