Recovery Support Worker

Location: HMP Onley, Rugby

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 16^th December 2025

We’re looking for a motivated and compassionate Recovery Support Worker to join our team at HMP Onley, working within an integrated healthcare framework to support adults with drug and alcohol needs. This is a hands-on, people-focused role where you’ll help individuals make meaningful, lasting changes in their lives.

What you’ll do

You’ll deliver client-centred, evidence-based support to offenders entering custody who are identified as having substance misuse needs. Your work will include:

• Managing a caseload and delivering both harm-reduction and abstinence-based interventions
• Providing high-quality assessments, care plans, and 1:1 structured sessions
• Facilitating group-work and structured treatment programmes where required
• Working closely with partner services including Healthcare, Probation, Transitional Services, Housing, Employment, Gym, and external Drug Intervention Teams to ensure seamless through-care and release planning
• Contributing to service targets and measuring outcomes
• Supporting clinical provision, which may include second signatory duties and oral swab testing

What you’ll need

• A commitment to supporting individuals with complex needs
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Ability to build positive, co-operative relationships with partner agencies
• Flexibility to work occasional evenings/weekends and travel to nearby projects when required

You’ll be part of a dedicated team making a tangible difference every day, helping people move toward healthier, more stable futures.

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/465/recovery-support-worker--hmp-onley.html

Contact information

A Member of the Ad Warrior Team