Recovery Programmes Trainee

Overview

We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), 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.

What you will be doing?

You will be working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to prisoners aged
18 and over.
Services are designed to deliver psychosocial drug and alcohol interventions and accredited
treatment programmes for offenders coming into prison that are identified as having an alcohol or
drug problem.
Services will deliver client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence based
treatment approaches depending on the requirements of the individual client. You will be required
to manage a caseload, provide appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assess, care
plan; deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions including structured treatment programmes
if relevant to the unit you are working in. Through care and integration with other services such as
Transitional, Housing, Employment, Gym, Healthcare, Probation and external Drugs Intervention
Teams are an essential element of the work to prepare for release.
You will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners.
One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with
other partner agencies is vital to this role.
Flexibility will be required in this role, this may include to other projects in your cluster to deliver
services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.

What we are looking for?

You already have some basics skills to help with the delivery of structured group work, as well as
the case management of clients on your caseload and to ensure that good links are established
and maintained with clinical teams.
This is a developmental role so your focus is to learn all aspects of a Recovery Programmes
Practitioner role, with support and mentoring from your manager and wider team.

Your day-to-day tasks will initially focus on shadowing, supporting the team. You can see yourself,
and are continually working towards, progressing to a Recovery Programmes Practitioner role with
the right support and training.
It is essential that you can speak Welsh, due to the requirements of the contract.

What we offer

Alongside Simply Health coverage, and a contributory pension scheme to assist employees with their general health and well-being. We offer:

• Training opportunities and career development
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 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)
• Simply Health
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
• x3 wellbeing days

Person specification

JD - Trainee Recovery Programmes Practitioner - Wales