The Forward Trust is hiring a
The Forward Trust, are a UK leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment services to offenders. We deliver treatment and recovery support – in prisons and in the community – which helps people move away from addiction and crime. These services provide a variety of support, including advice, counselling, group work and intensive treatment. At The Forward Trust we believe that all people who are addicted to or misusing substances should have access to support which is effective in protecting their health, and motivating them to take steps towards their own recovery. Over 20 years of pursuing this mission, we have been successful in moving thousands of drug dependent offenders away from a lifestyle revolving around crime, and drug or alcohol dependence.
We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with ‘Lived Experience’ we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness.
The Forward Trust provide both clinical and psychosocial Substance Misuse Services across Surrey Prisons in partnership with NHS Trust healthcare providers. Each service operates a Health and Wellbeing framework taking a trauma informed and gender responsive approach to delivery of a wide variety of interventions and integrated pathways tailored to meet specific needs of each prison and individual service users.
You will be based on site working within a team that have a broad skills mix providing recovery-orientated Health and Wellbeing Services to service users aged 18 and over at: HMP/YOI Bronzefield located on Woodthorpe Road, Ashford TW15 3JZ. HMP & YOI Bronzefield is a dynamic and forward-thinking women’s prison which accommodates a diverse and complex population of women from courts across the South of England. Services are designed to deliver clinical treatment, psychosocial interventions and accredited group programmes for those held in prison that are identified as having an alcohol or drug issues.
As a Team Leader you will be responsible for leading a team of Health and Well-being Practitioners contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners, providing supervision, training and guidance to practitioners and supporting the unit, management team. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role.
Please be aware that the service operate 7 days a week, therefore weekend working on a rota basis will be required.
Team Leader - Surrey - HMPYOI Bronzefield