Job Description:

Drug and Alcohol Recovery Support Worker

Location:  Rugby

Salary:  £26,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent    

Are you passionate about helping people overcome addiction and rebuild their lives? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, supportive environment where every day brings the opportunity to make a real impact?

We're looking for a Drug & Alcohol Recovery Worker to join our dedicated team, delivering high-quality, person-centred support to adults with drug and alcohol support needs within an integrated healthcare setting.

This is a rewarding opportunity to work alongside healthcare professionals, prison staff, and community partners to empower people on their recovery journey and support successful rehabilitation and reintegration into the community.

What You'll Be Doing

• Managing a diverse caseload of clients with drug and alcohol support needs.
• Completing assessments, care plans, risk assessments, and regular reviews.
• Delivering engaging one-to-one and group interventions using evidence-based psychosocial approaches.
• Providing practical harm reduction advice and recovery-focused support.
• Supporting clients through both harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment pathways.
• Working collaboratively with healthcare, probation, housing, employment, and community services to deliver seamless, holistic care.
• Helping individuals prepare for release by building links with community services and promoting positive outcomes.
• Contributing to service targets, measuring outcomes, and maintaining accurate case records.
• Undertaking second signatory duties and oral swab testing where required (training provided).

We're Looking For Someone Who

• Is passionate about supporting people to achieve lasting recovery.
• Builds trust quickly and treats everyone with dignity, empathy, and respect.
• Can confidently manage a busy caseload while maintaining high-quality support.
• Has excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Enjoys working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Is proactive, resilient, and motivated to make a real difference every day.
• Can adapt to changing priorities and thrives in a dynamic environment.

What You'll Need

• Experience working within drug and alcohol services, healthcare, mental health, criminal justice, or another related support setting.
• Experience carrying out assessments, care planning, and risk management.
• Confidence delivering one-to-one and group interventions.
• A good understanding of harm reduction and recovery-focused practice.
• Strong organisational, IT, and record-keeping skills.
• A collaborative approach and commitment to delivering outstanding client care.
• Flexibility to work occasional evenings or weekends when required.
• Willingness to travel to nearby services within the local cluster, with reasonable notice, to support continuity of care.

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

Support for Families – We support our employees through every stage of family life by offering enhanced maternity and paternity pay for eligible employees who have completed 26 weeks' continuous service, alongside family-friendly policies and a supportive, inclusive workplace.

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 click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.