Recovery Worker - HMP Wormwood Scrubs
Location: Shepherd's Bush
Salary: £27,000 per annum
About The Role
Are you passionate about helping people create positive change?
We are looking for a Recovery Worker to join our team at HMP Wormwood Scrubs, working full time, 35 hours per week. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference by supporting individuals affected by drug and alcohol use within a secure and supportive environment.
Working as part of an integrated healthcare team, you’ll provide high-quality psychosocial interventions to adults aged 18+, helping service users work towards recovery through personalised support, practical guidance, and evidence-based approaches.
As a Recovery Worker, you will:
- Manage a caseload of service users, providing structured 1:1 interventions and group sessions
- Complete assessments, risk management plans, and personalised care plans
- Deliver tailored drug and alcohol interventions using harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches
- Provide advice, motivation, and support to help individuals achieve their recovery goals
- Work collaboratively with healthcare teams and partner agencies including housing, employment, probation, and community services
- Support service users to access additional services and build positive pathways beyond treatment
- Maintain accurate records and contribute to service outcomes and performance targets
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has experience supporting people with substance misuse, health, or complex needs
- Can build effective, trusting relationships with service users
- Is confident delivering structured interventions and facilitating group work
- Understands safeguarding, risk management, and multi-agency working
- Is organised, proactive, and committed to improving people’s lives
This is a rewarding opportunity to join a dedicated team where your work will directly support individuals on their recovery journey. This role includes a cost of living payment of £250 per month.
If you’re passionate about recovery and want to be part of a service that makes a lasting impact, we’d love to hear from you.
All prison-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 5 months to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks.
Please note if you have lived overseas within the last 5 years then checks may take longer.
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
- Support for Families – We support our employees through every stage of family life by offering enhanced maternity and paternity pay for eligible employees who have completed 26 weeks' continuous service, alongside family-friendly policies and a supportive, inclusive workplace. If you'd like more information about our family-friendly benefits, please contact our Recruitment Team at (url removed)
- 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.
Please note that remote roles may require occasional travel for site visits, training and meetings.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application
