Recovery Worker

Recovery Worker - HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Location: London

Salary: £25,207 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Part Time

Closing Date: 15 Sep 2025

About The Role

We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate Recovery Worker to join our team, working with adults aged 18+ who are experiencing drug or alcohol-related issues. Our services combine both harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment approaches, tailored to the needs of each individual.

As part of an integrated healthcare framework, you will:

• Manage a caseload of clients, delivering person-centred care
• Provide harm reduction advice and structured interventions (1:1 and group sessions)
• Develop and implement care plans and treatment programmes
• Collaborate with partner agencies such as housing, employment services, probation, and healthcare providers
• Support service users through every stage of treatment, ensuring smooth transitions and continuity of care
• Contribute to service targets, including key outcomes set by Forward and local commissioners

All Prison based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 3 months. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.

Checks will require you to provide information on the below:

• Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
• Your family (parents, parents' partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
• Co-residents
• Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
• Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
• Credit reference checks
• Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that's publicly available on the internet to ensure there's nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
• Other government and overseas agency or police checks

We are looking for someone will the following skills, knowledge and experience listed below

• Experience working with vulnerable adults, ideally within substance misuse or a related field
• A flexible, proactive approach with a commitment to client centred care
• Strong communication and partnership-working skills
• Ability to work some evenings/weekends and travel within the local area as required

Please also see the job description attached for more information about this role.

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