Women’s Recovery Champion

Location: Southend on Sea

Salary: £26,000 per annum

Vacancy Type:  Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 19^th June 2026

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. 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
• 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.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/669/women-s-recovery-champion.html

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