Outreach Recovery Worker (Maternity Cover) - Southend on SeaContract£24,960Are you passionate about supporting people experiencing street-based living? We are looking for an Outreach Recovery Worker to join our team, helping rough sleepers and beggars access services, build sustainable lifestyles, and achieve positive outcomes. This is a maternity cover role running until 17th November 2026.What you’ll be doing: You will engage directly with service users to provide flexible, proactive support, including: Building relationships with rough sleepers and entrenched individuals, helping them access accommodation, healthcare, and substance misuse services. Empowering service users to make choices, maintain change, and strengthen personal and social networks. Collaborating with housing teams, mental health agencies, and partner services to ensure coordinated support. Participating in street outreach, case conferences, street counts, and maintaining accurate, confidential records. Working flexible hours, including unsociable shifts, across multiple locations to maximise service user contact.What we’re looking for: Commitment to anti-discriminatory, person-centred practice. Ability to work independently and collaboratively in challenging environments. Willingness to engage in ongoing training, supervision, and personal development.If you’re ready to make a tangible difference in people’s lives and thrive in a challenging, rewarding environment, we’d love to hear from you!Please see attached Job Description for full details About UsWe 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) 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. Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work We recognise the importance of safeguarding, 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.