Recovery Resettlement Practitioner (Housing Specialism)

Location: Kent

Salary: £26,339 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 7^th October 2025

We are looking for a dedicated and motivated Recovery Resettlement Specialist to join our Recovery Directorate as part of the Recovery Support and Recovery Housing Team. This is a vital role supporting Forward Trust service users, including those with complex needs, who are engaged in a recovery pathway, helping them to transition, thrive, and settle back into the community.

Our approach is person-centred, ensuring every individual has access to holistic, multidisciplinary support tailored to their needs. You will work closely with service users, colleagues, and external partners to sustain recovery, support tenancy sustainment, and enable individuals to fulfil their potential.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide recovery and housing-related support to service users across varying levels of complexity.
• Use housing and tenancy sustainment knowledge to deliver tailored interventions.
• Work collaboratively across Forward Trust services and with external partners to ensure continuity of care.
• Support individuals with substance use disorders and complex needs, including those within the Criminal Justice System.
• Enhance access to treatment services and provide additional guidance to meet holistic needs.
• Build and maintain effective cooperative working relationships with partner agencies and internal colleagues.
• Meet service targets set by Forward and line management.
• Work flexibly, including some ‘out of office’ hours, to ensure continuity of service delivery.

About You
The ideal candidate will:

• Have knowledge and experience in housing and tenancy sustainment.
• Understand the challenges faced by individuals in recovery, including those with complex needs.
• Be skilled in working with probation and within the Criminal Justice System.
• Demonstrate flexibility and resilience to adapt to changing demand across services.
• Be able to work independently while maintaining open communication with management.
• Be committed to a person-centred, recovery-focused approach.
• Have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build positive relationships with service users and partner agencies.

Early applications are encouraged; we reserve the right to end the advert early if we find the suitable candidate.

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)

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.

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

We recognise the importance of safeguarding, 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.

To Apply

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

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/381/recovery-resettlement-practitioner-housing-specialism.html

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