Overview

Admissions & Reintegration Worker – Nottinghamshire

Permanent

£25,800

An exciting opportunity to join a brand-new Day Rehabilitation programme in North Northamptonshire, working full-time (35 hours per week) to support people at a key stage in their recovery journey.

You’ll help shape a developing service that guides clients from initial referral through to successful reintegration into further treatment, volunteering, training, or other positive next steps.

Working within Forward Trust, you’ll combine meaningful 1:1 client engagement with coordination, administration, and partnership working to ensure smooth and effective pathways through the programme.

What you’ll be doing

  • Lead on referrals, assessments, inductions and reintegration planning
  • Carry out initial assessments and produce clear assessment reports
  • Support the admission process and placement of new clients
  • Deliver inductions for new clients entering the programme
  • Run reintegration sessions and support clients into further opportunities
  • Generate referrals to external agencies and services
  • Write reintegration reports and create client support materials
  • Liaise with partner organisations to develop reintegration opportunities
  • Manage the service inbox, responding to referrals and enquiries
  • Maintain accurate client files, case notes and database records
  • Contribute to audits and service improvement activities
  • Identify and escalate risks or concerns in a timely manner

What you’ll bring

  • Experience working in recovery-focused, support, or similar client-facing services
  • Strong assessment, report writing, and record-keeping skills
  • Ability to manage a varied workload across direct client work and administration
  • Confident communication skills with both clients and external partners
  • Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to build effective relationships and support positive client outcomes
  • Understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, and professional boundaries

This role involves participation in supervision, training, and team development activities to support your ongoing professional growth.

You’ll work in line with organisational policies including safeguarding, equality and diversity, GDPR, and health and safety. The role includes occasional evenings and weekends on a rota basis, plus travel to other sites (expenses reimbursed). You’ll also be expected to contribute ideas and support continuous improvement across the service.

This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to help shape a new service and make a real impact on people’s recovery and future opportunities.

Please see attached Job Description for full details

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)
    Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
     
    Diversity at Forward Trust
    The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

    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.  

    We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know.
     
    Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
    Dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

    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.

    Our Commitment to Safeguarding
    We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk. Forward Trust follow safer recruitment practices and support a culture of openness and accountability.

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