Trainee Recovery Support Worker (FTC - 12 months)
Overview:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Trainee Recovery Support Worker. You will have the opportunity to learn and develop new skills that help others break the cycle of addiction and live a positive life. The impact you will have in this role is far more reaching than the day-to-day contact with service users.
As a Trainee Recovery Support Worker, you will help us to deliver the best service to our service users and understand how the work of the Psychosocial Interventions Team supports transformational change and resilience.
Who we are?
The Forward Trust are a social enterprise that empowers people to break the cycle 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?:
As a Trainee Recovery Support Worker, you will support the team by delivering brief interventions, harm minimisation advice, as well as supporting and signposting to other departments we work closely with in the prison.
You will be supporting and developing individual care plans from service user assessments and learn to develop risk management plans. You will contribute to the through-care needs of the service users and how to safely transfer care into the community upon release.
Within this role you will undertake several mandatory training courses such as; Professional Boundaries, Facilitation Skills, Trauma Informed Care and Substance Misuse.
You will also work closely with members of the clinical team here at HMP Onley and have the opportunity to shadow clinical reviews with our service users.
Please note the salary will increase to £24,000pa on successful completion of the probation period and any required training
What we are looking for?:
- An interest or knowledge of the Criminal Justice Sector
- An interest or knowledge in the field of drugs and alcohol
- Good time management skills
- A commitment to engage in training and continuous professional development
- Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
- Experience of working with IT applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel
- Organised and able to prioritise workload
- Passionate about supporting change and empowering others
- Excellent communication skills
Having a full UK driving licence would be desirable due to the rural location and poor transport links. We welcome applications from all, however would like to note that HMPS have a legal eligibility requirement that applicants need to be 18 years of age or over.
What we offer:
- Training and development opportunities
- Flexible working
- Simply Health Cashback Scheme (Optional)
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Crisis Loan Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
- 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
- Access to Blue Light Card
- 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)
- Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
Diversity at Forward Trust
Our workforce is made up of a diverse community, where we all belong and feel part of something bigger. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
Please note the closing date for this role is 14/02/25. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Person specification:
Please find the full job description below. Please note that the duties listed in the below JD are all applicable, however as a Trainee, you will be working with a reduced caseload whilst you learn.
JD - Recovery Support Worker - Onley