Criminal Justice Worker (Dover/Folkestone) Fixed Term 1 year Maternity Cover

Location: Dover

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Contract, Full Time

Closing Date: 21 Aug 2025

About The Role

To support the service while one of our dedicated team go on Maternity Leave, we are now looking for a dedicated and compassionate Criminal Justice Recovery Worker to join our dynamic team for a year, delivering integrated healthcare and substance misuse support across East Kent.

This is a vital 1-year maternity cover role starting in October 2025, ideal for someone passionate about supporting individuals involved in the criminal justice system who are facing challenges with drug and/or alcohol use.

You will deliver client-centred care that incorporates both harm reduction and abstinence-based interventions, tailored to the unique needs of each service user. Many of your clients will be referred via courts, custody suites, or prison settings, and you’ll work closely with a wide network of partners to ensure coordinated, effective treatment and support.

What you will do:

• Deliver comprehensive assessments, care plans, and evidence-based 1:1 and group interventions for clients referred through the criminal justice system.
• Provide structured support and harm reduction advice to help individuals make positive changes in their lives.
• Work in partnership with Probation, Police, Courts, Housing, Employment, and Health Services to provide a truly integrated support pathway.
• Monitor compliance with court orders such as Drug Rehabilitation Requirements (DRRs) and Alcohol Treatment Requirements (ATRs), ensuring timely reporting and effective supervision.

What we are looking for:

• Experience of working in substance misuse, health, or criminal justice settings.
• Confidence in delivering structured interventions and managing a varied caseload.
• Strong partnership skills, with the ability to build trust with clients and collaborate across agencies.
• A flexible, resilient, and proactive approach, able to adapt and travel across the East Kent region when needed.

Every day is different and every day matters. If you’re ready to bring hope, change, and progress to people’s lives, we’d love to hear from you.

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)

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/293/criminal-justice-worker-dover-folkestone-fixed-term-1-year-maternity-cover.html

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