Womens Recovery Champion - Southend on Sea

An exciting opportunity to join a dynamic Recovery Support Team in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, working closely with the STARS recovery community. This is a full-time role (35 hours per week) where you'll play a key part in supporting individuals on their recovery journey across the wider Southend area.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, empathetic, and motivated practitioner with a strong understanding of professional boundaries and ideally lived experience or knowledge of recovery and the local community. You'll work alongside the BRiC Coordinator and wider multi-agency partners to deliver person-centred recovery support and help build strong pathways into and through recovery services.

What you'll be doing:

• Carrying a small caseload of recovery support clients
• Delivering 1:1 sessions, group work, and structured recovery interventions
• Facilitating welcome PODS and lived experience workshops
• Supporting recovery groups and service user involvement activities
• Working with partners to develop community recovery pathways
• Supporting assessments, care planning, and harm reduction approaches
• Helping clients access housing, benefits, training, and employment support
• Contributing to outcome-focused targets and service improvement

What we're looking for:

• Passion for recovery-focused, community-based support
• Ability to work confidently in a multi-agency environment
• Strong relationship-building and motivational skills
• Understanding of harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches
• Organised, reflective, and committed to professional development

Experience in recovery services or lived experience of recovery would be highly desirable. Be part of a supportive and purpose-driven team making a real impact, helping individuals rebuild their lives, strengthen recovery, and reconnect with their communities.

Please see attached Job Description for full details.

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
• BHSF 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. Some of our roles may require a minimum period of sustained recovery (normally around 3 years). This is assessed on a case-by-case basis, and exceptions may be considered depending on the role and individual circumstances.

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, please contact us.

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.