Assertive Outreach Recovery Worker
Location: Sutton, Surrey
Position Type: Indefinite, Full-Time
Salary: £25,154 - £27,948 per annum
We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), 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 believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with 'Lived Experience' we encourage applications from all backgrounds including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness.
What you will be doing?
Your role will be to focus on proactively supporting individual’s to positively engage with the service through social prescribing of activities in order to; reduce their sense of isolation, build pro-social connections, alleviate boredom, support their substance misuse treatment needs and improve wellbeing.
You will be based on site working within a te...