Outreach Recovery Worker Swale in Sittingbourne

Location: Sittingbourne

Salary: £24,000 per annum, plus benefits

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Advertising End Date: 31 Jul 2025

We are recruiting for an Outreach Recovery Worker Swale. Here at The Forward Trust Community hub, we help to support people that have issues with drugs and/or alcohol and want to make a positive change. We also support the family and friends of people who are worried about their loved ones' substance use.

Role Responsibilities

• Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over (dependent on service).
• Services are designed to deliver Psychosocial Drug and Alcohol Interventions for Service users that are identified as having an Alcohol or drug problem.
• Deliver client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence based treatment approaches depending on the requirements of the individual client.
• Manage a caseload, provide appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assess, care plan; deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions including structured treatment programmes.
• Care and integration with other services such as Housing, Employment, Healthcare services, Probation and CRCs are essential elements of the work.
• Contribute to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners, including measuring outcomes through co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies.
• Flexibility will be required in this role, which may include some evening/weekend shifts and reasonable notice to travel to other projects in your cluster to deliver services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.

The Ideal Candidate

• Knowledge of OST and harm reduction.
• Experience of working within the substance misuse services.
• Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments, risk management plans and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
• Experience of delivering structured interventions to service users.
• Experience of facilitating groups.
• Using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and group settings.
• Strong IT skills.
• Understanding of continuity of care, holistic care needs and community services.
• Experience of promoting and supporting Equality and Diversity.
• Knowledge of the issues facing substance misusers.
• Knowledge of the Recovery Agenda.
• Knowledge of Safeguarding.

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 of the employees who work for us is also important.

Joining us as 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 of 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 the Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.