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Supporting People on Recovery Navigator: Sussex: Part Time
Location: Sussex
Salary: A GBP 20,800 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
About The Role
Are you passionate about helping people rebuild their lives and believe that change is always possible?
We're looking for a Supporting People on Recovery Navigator to join our Sussex team working part-time, 28 hours per week.
This is more than a job; it's an opportunity to make a real difference every day. You'll support people on probation to overcome barriers, rebuild relationships, improve wellbeing, and move forward into a better future.
What You'll Be Doing
No Two Days Are The Same. You Could Be
- Delivering 1:1 support and group interventions
- Helping service users access healthcare, housing, or community support
- Supporting people before release from prison
- Building action plans alongside Probation Practitioners
- Encouraging positive lifestyle change and healthier relationships
- Keeping accurate records and ensuring safeguarding at all times
- Travelling across Sussex locations including Brighton, Hastings, Worthing, Crawley, Littlehampton, HMP Ford, and HMP Lewes
What We're Looking For
You may come from probation, prisons, police, education, health, social care, counselling, coaching, or bring valuable life experience and transferable skills.
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We'd Love To Hear From You If You Are
- Passionate about helping others succeed
- Great at building rapport and trust
- Organised and confident managing caseloads
- Comfortable working independently and as part of a team
- Creative, flexible, and solution-focused
- Motivated to achieve high standards and positive outcomes
- Committed to the belief that another life is possible
What You Need
- Experience or transferable skills in support planning, assessments, record keeping, or delivering interventions
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Willingness to travel daily across Sussex
- Full UK driving licence desirable
We're a leading charity changing lives across the UK. With a passionate national team and many colleagues with lived experience, we know recovery and rehabilitation are possible.
If you want a meaningful role where every day counts, we'd love to hear from you.
All probation-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 6-16 weeks 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.
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Benefits
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 as 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 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 of service and up to 9% thereafter
- Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
- Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
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