Overview

Hostel In-Reach Recovery Worker – Thanet & Canterbury – Canterbury

Permanent

£24,000

Want a role where you can genuinely change lives?

We’re looking for a Hostel In-Reach Recovery Worker to join our team on a full-time basis (35 hours per week), supporting adults with drug and alcohol needs who are living in supported accommodation hostels across Thanet and Canterbury.

You’ll work within an integrated healthcare framework, supporting people with high complexity, trauma, and barriers to engagement. With a smaller caseload, you’ll be able to offer enhanced, flexible, trauma-informed support to those most at risk of rough sleeping.

What you’ll be doing

  • Delivering 1:1 and group interventions tailored to individual needs
  • Completing risk, initial and comprehensive assessments to inform treatment journeys
  • Coordinating care with housing teams, healthcare, primary care and partner agencies
  • Supporting service users with housing, benefits, training, employment and health access
  • Motivating clients to engage with services and progress their care plans
  • Working collaboratively to achieve outcomes and commissioner targets

What we’re looking for

  • Experience working with substance misuse, complex needs or vulnerable adults
  • A strong understanding of trauma-informed approaches
  • Confidence working across multi-disciplinary partnerships
  • Ability to manage caseloads, KPIs and high-quality case recording
  • A proactive, solution-focused approach and commitment to integrated working

The role also involves

  • Flexible working, including some evenings/weekends
  • Occasional travel across your project cluster (with reasonable notice)
  • Strong focus on safeguarding, quality, safety and continuous improvement
  • Accurate documentation and data capture to evidence outcomes

If you’re passionate about recovery, value collaboration, and want the time to deliver meaningful, person-centred support, we’d love to hear from you.

Please see attached Job Description for full details

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.
     
    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.

    To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.  

    We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know.
     
    Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
    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.

    Our Commitment to Safeguarding
    We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk. Forward Trust follow safer recruitment practices and support a culture of openness and accountability.

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