Recovery Worker

Location: Dover

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Closing date: 27 Jan 2026

About The Role

Are you passionate about supporting people affected by drug and alcohol misuse? Do you want to be part of a dedicated team providing life-changing support to individuals in your community? If so, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for a committed Drug & Alcohol Recovery Worker to join our team, working within an integrated healthcare framework to support service users aged 18 and over. You’ll be delivering a combination of harm reduction and abstinence-based interventions, tailored to the needs of each individual.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a caseload of clients with drug and/or alcohol issues
• Deliver psychosocial interventions through structured 1:1 sessions and group work
• Provide harm reduction advice, guidance and education
• Complete assessments, create care plans, and review progress
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies including housing, healthcare, employment support, probation services, and others
• Support clients through every stage of their recovery journey with a client-centred approach
• Contribute to service targets and help measure outcomes in line with commissioner requirements

About You:

• Experience working with individuals affected by substance misuse (paid or voluntary)
• Strong communication and motivational skills
• Ability to build effective partnerships with other professionals and agencies
• Organised, empathetic, and client-focused
• Ability to work flexibly and adapt to changing client needs and service requirements

Please note flexibility will be required in this role, this may include some evening/weekend shift and with reasonable notice to travel to other projects in your cluster to deliver services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.

Applicants with lived experience of substance misuse should have at least three years of continuous recovery and be a minimum of three years post-discharge from structured treatment to be eligible for this role.

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/423/recovery-worker.html

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