Team Leader RSI Lead
Location: Southend on Sea
Salary: £27,281 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Closing Date: 2nd December 2025
Make a real difference. Lead a team. Change lives.
The Forward Trust is seeking a Team Leader (RSI Lead) to join our dedicated substance misuse team in Southend-on-Sea. If you are passionate about supporting vulnerable adults, have strong leadership qualities, and want to be part of a dynamic, community-focused team, this could be your next role.
Working within a community-based drug and alcohol treatment service, you will lead a frontline team supporting service users aged 18 and over. The service uses an integrated approach, offering clinical, psychosocial, and wellbeing interventions tailored to individual needs.
As the Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI) Lead, you will:
1. Manage a team of frontline practitioners, primarily within the RSI service.
2. Deliver high-quality interventions both harm reduction and abstinence-based to those experiencing substance misuse.
3. Coordinate with external partners including GPs, hospitals, housing, probation, police, and mental health services to support service users long-term recovery.
4. Occasionally perform urine and oral swab testing to support clinical treatment.
5. Yo...