Assessment Recovery Worker

Assessment Recovery Worker

Location: Sittingbourne

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Advertising End Date: 23 Feb 2026

About The Role

Are you passionate about supporting people on their journey to recovery?

Join our integrated healthcare team on a full-time basis (35 hours) and help adults tackle drug and alcohol challenges with tailored, client-centered care. You'll work in a dynamic environment delivering both harm reduction and abstinence-based interventions, helping service users achieve meaningful outcomes.

What you'll do:

• Manage your own caseload, assessing, care planning, and delivering structured 1:1 and group sessions.
• Provide harm reduction advice, treatment guidance, and practical support for housing, employment, and healthcare needs.
• Collaborate with partner agencies, including probation, CRCs, and healthcare providers, to ensure seamless support.
• Monitor progress and contribute to performance targets, KPIs, and outcome reporting.

What we're looking for:

• Experience in psychosocial interventions, drug/alcohol services, or related care roles.
• Ability to motivate and engage clients, building trust and supporting long-term change.
• Strong organisational skills to manage caseloads, care plans, and reporting efficiently.
• Team player with excellent communication and partnership-working skills.
• Commitment to safeguarding, health & safety, and continuous professional development.

You'll become part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team where your work truly changes lives. We offer ongoing training and development to help you grow professionally while working across integrated services to improve outcomes for clients. Every day presents an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of people overcoming drug and alcohol challenges.

Step into a role where your work truly changes lives, apply today and be part of the forward-thinking team transforming drug and alcohol support services!

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