Jobs
Join us. We are always looking for great people. We have a range of roles in our service across the spectrum of drug and alcohol work. Please keep checking back as we add new roles all the time. We welcome applications from people who have lived experience of issues with alcohol and/or drugs.
What’s in it for you?
- A competitive salary
- Pension Scheme
- Exceptional support, training and development
- Flexible working
Forward Leeds is a service made up of several key partners: Waythrough, BARCA-Leeds, St. Anne’s Community Services and Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust enabling the development of a peer led, recovery community.
Current Vacancies
Administrator/Receptionist
Contract type: Permanent and Full Time Salary: £24,243 - £26,667 per annum Closing Date: 16 February 2026
You will provide a wide range of administrative and organisational support across head office functions, including the smooth running of reception/head office environment, and administrative support to all employees, visitors, partners, and external stakeholders.
Key Accountabilities:
- Act as the assistant to office manager and be first point of contact for employees, visitors, partners, and external stakeholders, ensuring all contacts are appropriately supported, signposted, or responded to through a variety of channels.
- Provide a positive first contact and deliver high levels of customer service, ensuring all enquiries and visitors are responded to effectively and appropriately or escalated when required.
- Complete reception and front of office duties effectively to include maintaining the reception, managing post and deliveries, supporting a range of visitors (parking, access fobs, sign in) meeting preparations.
- Provide administrative support for a wide range of meetings, including agenda distribution, information gathering and minute taking.
- Contribute to the improvement of Head Office support by reporting and resolving issues, making suggestions for improvement to the Central Support Office Manager.
- Support key tasks and projects as required within Central Support teams to meet specific business objectives and operational needs.
- Undertake continuing professional development including participating in clinical supervision, performance reviews and attending training as/when required.
- Work in accordance with all relevant legislation, policies & procedures and guidelines – both internal and external. This includes Humankind’s clinical governance framework.
- Keep abreast of policy and professional development within your area of professional expertise.
- To promote, adhere to and live our workplace values of being honest, committed and inventive.
Apprentice Recovery Coordinator (Kirkgate)
Contract type: Full Time, Fixed Term (Minimum duration of apprenticeship is 12 months) Salary: £19,240 per annum Closing Date: 16 February 2026
Are you looking to start a rewarding career journey where you can gain a qualification whilst helping to improve the quality of people’s lives?
We are currently looking to build our Recovery Co-ordination team and as an Apprentice Recovery Coordinator, you can expect the following:
- You will be supported to build the skills and knowledge to be able to provide specialist, tailored support to enable service users to make positive changes.
- You will work towards managing a caseload by creating, implementing, and reviewing recovery and treatment plans.
- You will contribute towards reducing substance-related harm to individuals and the wider community.
- You will work towards completing the Level 2 apprenticeship in Adult Care with a local training provider. This will include achieving Level 1 in functional skills (Maths & English) if you haven’t already.
Drug and Alcohol Practitioner
Contract type: Permanent and Full time Salary: £25,110 - £32,090 per annum Closing Date: 19 February 2026
We’re looking for a compassionate and motivated Recovery Worker to support individuals affected by alcohol and/or non-opiate substance use. In this role, you’ll manage a caseload of people by developing, implementing, and reviewing personalised recovery and treatment plans.
You’ll provide 1:1 psychosocial interventions (PSI), brief interventions, and holistic care planning to help people reduce harm and make lasting positive changes. Working collaboratively with partners and colleagues across the city, you’ll guide individuals from initial assessment through structured treatment, supporting their journey into recovery and onward care.
If you’re passionate about empowering others, promoting wellbeing, and making a tangible difference in your community, we’d love to hear from you.
Young Adults Worker
Contract type: Permanent and Full Time Salary: £25,110 - £32,090 per annum Closing Date: 22 February 2026
You will work as part of the Forward Leeds Young Persons Team to deliver drug and alcohol related interventions for young people (up to 21 years or 24 years depending on vulnerability) across Leeds. Work delivered will be outreach so based in schools, colleges, Youth Justice Centres and Community Venues.
What You’ll Do
Responsibilities will include:
- Case Management: Be the driving force behind the drug and alcohol treatment journeys of young adults. Conduct assessments, develop personalised care plans, and deliver interventions that truly make a difference.
- Community Promotion: Amplify our services within the community by building strong relationships with local organisations. Empower young adults and their families through engaging education and awareness sessions.
- Quality Assurance: Maintain the highest standards of care by implementing and adhering to service policies and procedures. Conduct thorough audits and keep meticulous records.
Young Adults Worker
Contract type: Full Time, Maternity Cover until 18/09/2026 Salary: £25,110 - £32,090 per annum Closing Date: 22 February 2026
You will work as part of the Forward Leeds Young Persons Team to deliver drug and alcohol related interventions for young people (up to 21 years or 24 years depending on vulnerability) across Leeds. Work delivered will be outreach so based in schools, colleges, Youth Justice Centres and Community Venues.
What You’ll Do
Responsibilities will include:
- Case Management: Be the driving force behind the drug and alcohol treatment journeys of young adults. Conduct assessments, develop personalised care plans, and deliver interventions that truly make a difference.
- Community Promotion: Amplify our services within the community by building strong relationships with local organisations. Empower young adults and their families through engaging education and awareness sessions.
- Quality Assurance: Maintain the highest standards of care by implementing and adhering to service policies and procedures. Conduct thorough audits and keep meticulous records.
IPS Employment Specialist
Contract type: Full time Salary: £25,110 - £32,090 Closing Date: 24 February 2026
The Forward Leeds IPS team aims to increase the number of people moving into employment from the specialist drug and alcohol services. Employment specialist roles will be co-located within these teams working closely alongside recovery service staff to support a small caseload of service users into employment opportunities.
This is a very interesting, varied and rewarding role. A driving licence would be beneficial but not essential, but the successful candidate would not be based in one office and expected to travel across Leeds according to the requirements of the role. IT equipment and a mobile phone would be provided and be carried on their person to the different locations.
What You’ll Do
An Employment Specialist offers a bespoke employment service to the individual accessing recovery at Forward Leeds which includes, career coaching, CV writing, interview techniques, making links with local and national employers, attending job fairs, working across different sites and some community working. To help and support the individual to quickly gain employment as part of their recovery journey.
Recovery Support Volunteer
Contract type: Volunteering Closing Date: 28 February 2026
This role will support service users who are on their recovery journey for opiate substance use. As a recovery support volunteer, you will support the service to deliver interventions and motivational interviewing to service users at varying stages of their recovery journey.
Tasks may include:
- Provide support for clients throughout their recovery journey
- Provide support for clients with any unmet needs (health, housing, benefits, criminal justice, for example)
- Provide suitable emotional support for clients
- Support staff with providing urine tests for clients
- Asist with writing up case notes
- To develop and knowledge and understanding of an individuals’ recovery plan, and how to collaboratively create one.
- Adhere to risk management, health and safety guidelines and any relevant policies relating to the role
- Help to complete comprehensive assessments & any other relevant paperwork
- Potential to work up to recording information on SystmOne (our internal system) and co-working on a caseload
- Supporting staff with admin responsibilities such as phoning GPs, making pre-assessment phone calls with clients, phone check ins between assessments, and contacting disengaged clients.
Alcohol and Substance Worker (Focussed Intervention Team) x2
Contract type: Full-time, Permanent Salary: £26,193- £27,804 pro rata Closing Date: 6 March 2026
You will be at the forefront of the Forward Leeds drug and alcohol service. Your role will be to work with service users who identify as having problems with drugs (predominantly non-opiates) and alcohol, to deliver appropriate interventions in a time-bound manner.
You will also be required to promote the service and communicate advice and information to the general public through coordinated attendance at a wide range of city wide events, presentations to varied groups, one to one engagement, work within the night time economy and many other types of public interaction
Enhanced Care Recovery Practitioner (Kirkgate)
Contract type: Full time and Permanent Salary: £25,110 - £32,090 per annum Closing Date: 31 March 2026
This is an interesting and rewarding role where you will have the flexibility to complete greater levels of outreach with reduce barriers to engagement, support people to engage with specialist services, bring intensive support and interventions and enhance positive outcomes through this flexible working.
The post holder will provide holistic support to adults to support their drug / alcohol treatment. Key roles and responsibilities include:
- Assess and engage with those individuals identified to have multiple needs who require a more flexible way of working including outreach support to reduce identified barriers to engagement with mainstream support in a service setting due to their identified additional needs.
- Manage a service user caseload and review on going care and treatment liaising closely with the full range of specialist workers within the multi-agency team, including family members and significant others, as appropriate.
- The role will include but is not restricted to conducting home visits, supporting clients to appointments with various services/specialisms as well as meeting individuals in the community.
- To exercise excellent communication skills and therapeutic skills when dealing with Service Users, Carers, and Caring agencies.
- To work closely and in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team from across the Forward Leeds partnership and externally providing advice and guidance to managers and other colleagues, through attendance at reviews, team meetings and group supervision and via the telephone.