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  • All LocationsAll Locations:
    Thurrock
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    Community Drug and Alcohol Services
  • Vacancy TypeVacancy Type:
    Permanent
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    £25,000 - £27,000 DOE
  • Directorate:
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  • About The Role

  • Be the difference in someone’s recovery journey.

    We’re seeking an experienced and motivated Recovery Coordinator in Thurrock to join our integrated healthcare service delivering psychosocial drug and alcohol interventions to adults aged 18+. This full-time (35 Hours) role offers the opportunity to make a genuine impact within a supportive, outcome-focused environment.

    Working within a multi-disciplinary framework, you’ll provide person-centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches, tailoring support to individual recovery goals while promoting safety, stability and long-term change.

    What You’ll Be Doing

    • Managing and prioritising a varied caseload
    • Completing risk, initial and comprehensive assessments
    • Developing, reviewing and updating structured care plans
    • Delivering engaging 1:1 interventions and structured group programmes
    • Providing practical harm reduction advice and health risk management
    • Coordinating care with healthcare, housing, probation, employment and family support services
    • Motivating clients to engage with community and specialist support
    • Contributing to KPIs and measurable service outcomes

    What We’re Looking For

    • Experience within the substance misuse field, either directly or indirectly
    • Strong assessment, care planning and risk management skills
    • Confidence delivering structured interventions in both 1:1 and group settings
    • Ability to manage competing priorities and meet performance targets
    • A collaborative, solution-focused mindset
    • Commitment to safeguarding, quality standards and continuous professional development
    • Flexibility to work occasional evenings/weekends with reasonable notice

    You’ll be part of a forward-thinking team that values reflective practice, partnership working and real, measurable impact. This is more than a job; it’s an opportunity to help people rebuild their lives while developing your own professional expertise.

    If you’re ready to support change that lasts, we’d love to hear from you.

    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. 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.
       
      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.

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