Overview
Recovery Worker – HMP Wormwood Scrubs – London
Permanent
£25,207
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 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)
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.
Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
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.
