Assertive Outreach Recovery Worker

Location: Dover

Salary: £24,000 (Pro Rata)

Vacancy Type: Fixed Term Contract, Full Time

Closing Date: 7^th October 2025

**Please note this is a fixed-term role for 6 months**

We are looking for two passionate and motivated Assertive Outreach Recovery Workers to join our team in Dover. These roles, funded by PHE, will focus on supporting adults (18+) experiencing drug and/or alcohol misuse. Working within an integrated healthcare framework, you will provide tailored interventions to help individuals move towards recovery and improved wellbeing.

You will manage a caseload and deliver a mix of harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment approaches, depending on individual client needs. This will include carrying out assessments, creating SMART care plans, facilitating 1:1 and group sessions, and delivering structured psychosocial interventions. A key part of this role will be building strong working relationships with partner agencies, such as housing, employment, healthcare, probation, and CRC services, to ensure holistic care and continuity of support.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of service users with substance misuse issues.
• Complete comprehensive assessments, risk management plans, and SMART care plans.
• Deliver structured 1:1 interventions, group sessions, and treatment programmes.
• Provide harm reduction advice, guidance, and support.
• Promote and support equality, diversity, and safeguarding at all times.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies to provide holistic, client-centred care.
• Contribute to service targets and outcome measures as set by Forward and local commissioners.
• Be flexible to work occasional evenings/weekends and travel to other projects within the cluster when required.

Essential Criteria

• Knowledge of OST (Opioid Substitution Therapy) and harm reduction approaches.
• Experience in substance misuse services.
• Experience conducting assessments, risk management, and care planning.
• Skilled in delivering structured interventions and facilitating groups.
• Experience using motivational interviewing techniques.
• Strong IT skills.
• Understanding of holistic care, continuity of care, and community services.
• Experience promoting equality, diversity, and safeguarding.
• Good knowledge of the Recovery Agenda and challenges facing substance misusers.

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/366/assertive-outreach-recovery-worker-ftc.html

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