Drug and Alcohol Recovery Support Worker - HMP Onley

Location: Rugby

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

About The Role

Are you ready to make a real difference in people’s lives?

We’re recruiting a full-time (35 hours/week) Recovery Support Worker based at HMP Onley. You’ll work within an integrated healthcare framework to support adults (18+) with drug and alcohol dependence, delivering psychosocial interventions using harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches tailored to each individual.

Please note: HMP Onley is a rural location with limited public transport options, so reliable travel arrangements are essential.

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing a caseload and coordinating recovery journeys
• Delivering structured 1-to-1 sessions and group programmes
• Completing assessments, risk assessments, and care plans
• Providing harm reduction advice and guidance
• Supporting release planning and through-the-gate continuity of care
• Collaborating with partners such as Healthcare, Probation, Housing, and Employment services
• Contributing to service performance targets and measuring outcomes

Who we’re looking for:

• Organised, confident, and able to manage a varied caseload
• A proactive team player who builds strong working relationships
• Flexible, with occasional evening/weekend shifts and travel across local projects if required
• Skilled in IT and maintaining accurate records
• Committed to safeguarding, quality, and professional standards

This is a rewarding role where your work makes a tangible impact, helping people rebuild their lives, reduce reoffending, and achieve lasting recovery.

All prison-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 5 months to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks.

Please note if you have lived overseas within the last 5 years then checks may take longer.

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.

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 application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/577/drug-and-alcohol-recovery-support-worker--hmp-onley.html

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