Reconnect worker- Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire

Location: UK

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 02 Dec 2025

About The Role

Are you passionate about helping people successfully reintegrate into the community after prison?

The Forward Trust is looking for a dedicated RECONNECT Worker to provide a bespoke, inclusive service to clients across HMP Bedford, HMP Woodhill, and Yarl’s Wood IRC, ensuring they have the guidance and support needed to thrive post-release.

About the Role:

As a RECONNECT Worker, you’ll work directly with service users in these locations to identify their needs, create personalised care plans, and support them for up to six months after release. You’ll coordinate with multiple agencies to provide interventions across physical and mental health, wellbeing, mentoring, GP referrals, aftercare, and connections to the wider Forward Trust community.

Key Responsibilities:

• Process referrals and provide updates to referrers on assessment outcomes.
• Conduct in-depth needs assessments for all suitable referrals.
• Maintain contact and support for service users in preparation for release and for six months post-release.
• Build and maintain excellent partnerships with external agencies and key stakeholders.
• Implement clear referral pathways, including Offender Management in Custody, Family/Self, Prison, and Healthcare.
• Deliver a holistic service safely in line with individual and team targets.
• Collaborate with colleagues to share best practice and fully engage in risk assessment processes.
• Ensure service users are fully connected with local services before release into the community.

What We’re Looking For:

• Experience in working with offenders, vulnerable adults, or in a similar support role.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to deliver person-centred, solution-focused support.
• Knowledge of relevant statutory and voluntary services.
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting wellbeing.

Join The Forward Trust and play a key role in helping people across HMP Bedford, HMP Woodhill, and Yarl’s Wood IRC build a brighter, more independent future.

This role is based in and around Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire, working in the prisons across these areas and some WFH days too so it is a hybrid role.

About Us

We are The Forward Trust, 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.

We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits - 

• Flexible working
• Training and development opportunities
• 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)

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/449/reconnect-worker-bedfordshire--buckinghamshire.html

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