Recovery Worker

Location: Cheshire

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 18 Nov 2025

About The Role

We’re looking for a motivated and compassionate Recovery Worker to join our Integrated Healthcare team at HMP Stoke Heath, Market Drayton. You’ll deliver psychosocial drug and alcohol interventions and treatment programmes, supporting individuals on their journey to recovery.

What you’ll do:

• Manage a caseload and deliver client-centred treatment using harm reduction or abstinence-based approaches.
• Provide assessments, care plans, 1:1 and group sessions, and structured programmes.
• Work closely with partners across healthcare, probation, resettlement, and external agencies to ensure continuity of care and support successful release planning.
• Contribute to Forward Trust and local commissioner targets, including outcomes measurement.
• Support clinical provision through oral swab testing and second signatory duties where required.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience or strong understanding of substance misuse work.
• Excellent communication and partnership skills.
• Flexible, proactive, and able to adapt, occasional evening/weekend shifts and travel may be required.

You’ll be part of a dedicated, supportive team making a tangible impact every day, helping people rebuild their lives through recovery and rehabilitation.

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 Trus, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.