Community Engagement Worker - Part Time - Nottinghamshire

Are you passionate about people, recovery, and creating communities where lived experience leads the way? We’re looking for an energetic and compassionate Community Engagement Worker to join our team in Nottinghamshire, with travel across the county. This is a part-time role working 28 hours per week and offers an exciting opportunity to help grow Nottinghamshire’s Lived Experience Recovery Organisation (LERO). You’ll be part of something meaningful, supporting a thriving, inclusive recovery community built on peer support, advocacy, and quality improvement.

About the Role

You’ll play a key role in connecting people, strengthening partnerships, and supporting volunteers to make a real difference across Nottinghamshire. Working closely with the Volunteer Coordinator and Leadership Committee, you’ll help shape the future of the LERO as it works towards becoming an independent, sustainable organisation.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build relationships with individuals, community groups, and partner organisations
• Recruit, support, and motivate volunteers throughout their journey
• Help deliver peer-led groups, recovery activities, and community events
• Promote local support services, resources, and self-help networks
• Support volunteer training opportunities, including qualifications
• Represent the LERO at meetings, forums, and community events
• Maintain accurate records, reports, and volunteer data
• Gather feedback, stories, and outcomes to show impact
• Help create safe, inclusive, and welcoming spaces for everyone

What We’re Looking For

• A people person with excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Passion for recovery, inclusion, and community empowerment
• Experience supporting volunteers, service users, or community projects
• Organised and confident managing records, admin, and multiple priorities
• Able to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team
• Understanding of safeguarding, equality, confidentiality, and professional boundaries
• Lived experience or understanding of recovery communities is highly valued

This is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of a service led by lived experience and help shape a growing organisation with genuine community impact. You’ll join a supportive team, access development opportunities, enjoy flexible part-time hours, and play a direct role in changing lives across Nottinghamshire.

If you’re ready to build connections, inspire others, and help grow recovery communities across Nottinghamshire, 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.

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.

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.

To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know.

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.

Our Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk. Forward Trust follow safer recruitment practices and support a culture of openness and accountability.