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  • About The Role

  • Are you passionate about supporting people to make positive, lasting change?

    We’re looking for a Drug & Alcohol Practitioner to join our team in Hull, delivering vital psychosocial interventions and accredited treatment programmes to individuals with drug and alcohol needs within an integrated healthcare setting.

    In this full-time (35 hours per week) role, you’ll support individuals on their recovery journey using both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches, helping them build the skills and confidence needed to move forward and prepare for life beyond custody.

    What you’ll be doing

    • You’ll play a key role in delivering person-centred support, including:
    • Managing a caseload of service users and supporting their treatment journeys
    • Completing risk assessments, care planning and regular reviews
    • Delivering structured 1:1 interventions and group programmes
    • Providing harm reduction advice and recovery-focused support
    • Facilitating accredited drug and alcohol treatment programmes
    • Supporting individuals to develop release and resettlement plans

    This role sits within a multi-disciplinary team, so partnership working is key. You’ll work closely with:

    • Healthcare teams
    • Probation services
    • Housing and employment services
    • External drug and alcohol services

    Together, you’ll ensure individuals receive the support they need both during custody and as they prepare for release.

    What we’re looking for

    We’re seeking someone who is motivated, organised and committed to supporting recovery.

    Ideally, you will have:

    • Experience working with drug and alcohol services, recovery programmes or offender rehabilitation
    • Confidence delivering group work and structured interventions
    • Strong assessment, case management and care planning skills
    • The ability to build effective relationships with partner agencies and colleagues

    Additional responsibilities

    • Maintain accurate case records and outcome reporting
    • Contribute to service targets, audits and quality standards
    • Use case management systems such as P-NOMIS and other internal systems
    • Carry out second signatory processes and oral swab testing where required

    Flexibility is important in this role, including occasional evening or weekend work and travel to other services within the cluster when required.

    If you’re looking for a rewarding role where you can genuinely change lives, 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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