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
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Community Rehab Worker
Contract type: Full time - 37.5 hours per week, Permanent Salary: £27,074.37 pa
You will support people affected by alcohol and substance misuse in preparing for residential rehabilitation placements outside the local area. This includes providing one-to-one support, facilitating a weekly rehab preparation group, and delivering structured interventions to help service users get ready for admission.
You will play a key role in the referral process, completing all necessary paperwork relating to funding, finances, and data tracking systems. Your duties will also include transporting service users to and from out-of-area rehab facilities for assessments, admissions, and discharges, using your own vehicle (mileage reimbursed).
Collaboration is central to this role. You will work closely with case managers, other professionals, and rehab providers to ensure that each service user receives person-centred, coordinated care throughout their treatment journey.
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Street Outreach Practitioner
Contract type: Permanent Salary: £25,110 - £32,090 per annum Closing Date: 21 December 2025
This is a diverse and rewarding role, key duties you will undertake are:
- Manage a caseload, devising, implementing, and reviewing on-going recovery and treatment plans.
- Facilitate and promote individuals’ progression from initial engagement into structured treatment.
- Work in a proactive role to minimise and prevent rough sleeping and begging within Leeds by engaging and maintaining clients into treatment.
- Reduce substance related harm to individuals and the wider community.
- Working collaboratively with key partners and colleagues across the street support partnership to achieve the best health and wellbeing outcomes for individuals.
- To support individuals to move into supported, more permanent accommodation.
- To provide holistic support to adult service users and to coordinate their drug treatment, including assessment, recovery coordination, Psychosocial Interventions (PSI) delivery and multi-agency working.
- As directed by the Lead Practitioner, the practitioner will be an integral member of the dynamic multi-agency team developing comprehensive and tailored individual interventions.
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Drug and Alcohol Practitioner
Contract type: Full time Salary: £25,110 - £32,090 per annum Closing Date: 22 December 2025
This is a diverse and rewarding role.
Key duties you will undertake are:
- Manage a caseload, devising, implementing, and reviewing on-going recovery and treatment plans.
- Facilitate and promote individuals’ progression from initial assessment into structured treatment.
- Provide 1:1 PSI and brief intervention support
- Care planning and risk assessment/management
- You will take a “whole person” holistic approach to ensure that every service user’s package of care encompasses all areas of their wellbeing, to achieve the best possible outcomes for every person.
- Reduce substance related harm to individuals and the wider community.
- Working collaboratively with key partners and colleagues across the city-wide partnership to achieve the best health and wellbeing outcomes for individuals.
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Specialist Detox worker
Contract type: Full time - 37.5 hours per week, Permanent Salary: £27074.37 pa Closing Date: 26 December 2025
This is an exciting opportunity to address the unmet needs of people who have difficulties engaging with conventional treatment systems. You will be responsive and complete timely community-based assessments, collaborating with community providers to ensure accessible treatment options.
Support will include preparation for those wishing to detox from alcohol whether this be through a residential setting or a community detox pathway. Our aim is to ensure that the service user and their family have access to appropriate care which is coordinated in line with a person-centred approach.
- You will work closely with the Team Manager and will be responsible for your own caseload
You will organise face-to-face appointments and deliver therapeutic sessions ,including safe alcohol reduction plans, risk assessments and harm reduction/relapse prevention work.
You will also link in with GP’s, Healthcare Assistants, Hospital Teams, and Rehab Facilities to work holistically in supporting services users to achieve their planned treatment goals.
You will use your own initiative to identify unmet needs within our service and work collaboratively with partnership agencies.
- You will work closely with the Team Manager and will be responsible for your own caseload
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Clinical Site Lead
Contract type: Permanent and Full time Salary: £44,789 - £64,384 per annum Closing Date: 30 December 2025
We are seeking an experienced and passionate clinician to join our multidisciplinary team and play a key role in delivering safe, effective drug and alcohol treatment at our Kirkgate hub. This is an exciting opportunity to influence clinical practice, support staff development, and shape high-quality services that make a real difference in people’s lives.
As Clinical Site Lead you will work closely with hub managers and the Clinical Director to provide strong clinical leadership and ensure the consistent delivery of evidence-based, person-centred care. You will champion a holistic, “whole-person” approach to wellbeing, supporting service users not only with their substance use, but with all aspects of their health and recovery.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide clinical leadership within the hub and support effective integrated governance across the service.
- Collaborate with other site leads and the Clinical Services Director to ensure clinical continuity during staff absence or shortages.
- Supervise, support, and develop clinical staff through one-to-ones, appraisals, return-to-work processes, and mentoring of new clinicians.
- Facilitate smooth clinical pathways between local hospitals, primary care, and specialist services.
- Support recruitment, induction, training, appraisal, and, where appropriate, disciplinary or grievance procedures for clinical staff.
- Prescribe medication safely and in line with Waythrough’s medicines management policies and governance frameworks.
- Deliver person-centred health promotion and harm-reduction interventions.
- Ensure clinical consistency across services by adhering to national and local clinical standards and best practice guidelines.
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Drug and Alcohol Practitioner
Contract type: Permanent, Full time Salary: £25,110 - £32,090 per annum Closing Date: 2 January 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.
This role is working with clients who are using alcohol and/or non opiate substances
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Alcohol and Substance Worker (Focussed Intervention Team) x3
Contract type: Permanent Salary: £26,193- £27,804 pro rata Closing Date: 4 January 2026
As an alcohol and substance worker and member of the Focused Intervention Team, 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.