Dual Diagnosis Recovery Worker

Location: Canterbury

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Closing date: 27 May 2026

About The Role

Are you passionate about helping people rebuild their lives?

We’re looking for a passionate and proactive Dual Diagnosis Recovery Worker to join our team, working full time (35 hours per week) across our Canterbury and Sittingbourne services. This is a rewarding opportunity to support adults experiencing both mental health challenges and substance misuse needs, helping them move towards recovery through person-centred, joined-up support.

You’ll play a key role in delivering tailored interventions, reducing harm, improving wellbeing and empowering people to make lasting positive change.

What you’ll be doing

• Managing a caseload of service users with complex needs
• Completing risk, initial and comprehensive assessments
• Creating and reviewing personalised care plans
• Delivering structured 1:1 sessions and group programmes
• Providing harm reduction advice and relapse prevention support
• Supporting access to housing, benefits, training and employment
• Working closely with mental health teams, healthcare professionals and partner agencies
• Maintaining accurate records, data and outcome reporting
• Managing safeguarding concerns and promoting safe practice

What we’re looking for

• Experience supporting people with substance misuse, mental health or dual diagnosis needs
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, risk management and recovery-focused practice
• Experience managing a caseload and achieving targets/KPIs
• Excellent communication and partnership-working skills
• Strong IT and administration skills
• A flexible approach, including occasional evening/weekend work and travel where required

Join a supportive, values-led organisation where your work has real impact. You’ll receive ongoing training, supervision and opportunities to develop your career while changing lives every day.

If you’re ready to help people build healthier, more independent futures, 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.

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

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 Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/631/dual-diagnosis-recovery-worker.html

Contact information

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