Recovery Programmes Practitioner

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?:
Our core purpose is to break the cycle of crime and you play a key part in bringing it to life. In practice,

this means you will deliver tailored interventions based on your clients’ individual requirements. That

means thinking collaboratively and providing a seamless link into our clinical, family work, housing,

employment, and recovery and reintegration services (to name a few), as well as collaborating with

other agencies.

The ultimate aim is for our clients to successfully reintegrate back into society with plenty of recovery

and wellbeing capital to build on.

Day to day you will deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions for both Substance Misuse and Low

Level Mental Health service users to provide transitional support from prison to the community to

prepare service users for release.

Our success is based around targets and measuring the effectiveness of our work, so accurate and

timely recording of data will be a vital part of your role.

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
- x3 wellbeing days

Person specification:
JD - Trainee Recovery Programmes Practitioner - Wales