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Salary: £29,356 pro rata

Location: South Gloucestershire

Contract Type: Permanent

The Role

DHI’s Forging Ahead Service provides holistic and individual support to service users across South Gloucestershire.

Do you enjoy supporting individuals? Are you looking for ways to help others succeed professionally? Do you have the skills to engage directly with employers to seek out opportunities for your clients?

If this sounds like you, apply today for our Employment Specialist position!
Join us in our mission to overcome the barriers faced to employment by individuals who have experienced problematic alcohol or substance use.

We are seeking someone. who is motivated, enthusiastic and adaptable to take on this varied and exciting role working with service users across South Gloucestershire. You will be supporting individuals in structured drug and alcohol treatment to find, secure and sustain paid employment.

This is your chance to make a real difference in the life of someone and support them in finding sustainable employment to aid recovery. Get the chance to change someone’s life by supporting them to overcome the barriers they face to work.

Join us to work with a motivated group of people, all determined to help individuals who have been socially excluded - together, we can transform lives.

A Driving Licence with access to a vehicle and willingness to use it for work travel is essential.

About You

At DHI we highly value transferable skills and life experience. If you have good organisational skills, solve problems, and are resilient, adaptable and flexible then we would love to hear from you.

Your background could be from anywhere where you have needed to apply problem solving and motivational skills. Teaching, ex-armed forces, customer service are all examples of just some professions where we believe these transferable skills are often found, or you may have lived experience.

Our Values

We are an award winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and our values underpin this.

If you share DHI’s values of flexibility, stimulation, self- direction and zest for life, then we encourage you to apply.

We look forward to exploring these with you during the interview process should you be successful at the shortlisting stage.

What We Offer

We offer on the job support and mentoring within the team for this role, as well as training with regard to drug and alcohol related topics that are relevant to the post.

As an employee of DHI, you will have also access to our Employee Assistance Programme, our Cycle Scheme, 26 days paid annual leave, company pension scheme and Charity Worker Discounts.

How to apply

To apply for this role please complete the application form by 04/09/2026. You can find the form on our website: https://www.dhi-online.org.uk/about-us/jobs

Interviews will be held on 08/09/2026.

All applicants are required to submit a statement that is part of the application form that should address the following questions in no more than 500 words.

1. State how you meet the requirements for the role

2. What do our core values mean to you in relation to this role

We strongly encourage you to complete our Equality & Diversity monitoring form to help us achieve a diverse workforce. The form does not form part of the selection process. Please also tell us where you saw the post advertised.

Pay: £29,356.00 per year

Benefits:

• Cycle to work scheme
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Store discount

Work Location: In person