Team Leader

Location: HMP Brixton

Salary: £30,082 per annum plus benefits

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

We are recruiting for a Team Leader at HMP Brixton

Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment. Our support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes.

The Forward Trust services which are delivered within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and are delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are integral to the work we do.

We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past. Our work in prisons aims to support those affected by drug or alcohol issues to create lasting change and reduce dependency, homelessness, unemployment, and re-offending.”

Role Responsibilities

You will be managing a team of practitioners delivering health and wellbeing interventions and support to adult drug and alcohol users. The treatment is tailored to individual needs, using both harm reduction and abstinence based treatment approaches as well as supporting low level mental health needs. On a daily basis you will be allocating caseloads, managing a small number of complex cases, supporting and developing your team, and ensuring deadlines and quality standards are met. You will be responsible for delivering on performance targets set by Forward, commissioners and the prime contractor. And you will support the Service Manager to ensure data accuracy and data submission deadlines are met. At times you will be the most senior representative on site and will be required to deputise for the Service Manager to ensure the smooth running of the service. You will be in a position of trust and building an excellent relationship with your manager will be a priority, as well as collaborative working relationships with partner agencies.

All probation-based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 3-6 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.

Checks will require you to provide information on the below:

• Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
• Your family (parents, parents’ partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
• Co-residents
• Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
• Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
• Credit reference checks
• Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that's publicly available on the internet to ensure there's nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
• Other government and overseas agency or police checks

 The Ideal Candidate

Please see below a list of skills and experience needed for this role:

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in the management of teams, performance and development
• Genuine interest in motivating and developing people
• Experience in key relationship management both internally and externally
• Knowledge and experience of implementing formal procedures and policies
• Excellent problem solving and negotiation skills
• Project and time management skills

Desirable

• Experience of contract management, recruitment experience, and/or data management
• Previous experience of working in a 12 step primary care
• Programme Personal experience of addiction/imprisonment (Addicts in recovery should have at least 3 years clean time
• Ex-prisoners should have been released at least 5 years ago).
• Experience of working within the criminal justice sector
• Knowledge of the Recovery Agenda
• Experience of providing services to prisoners, or those with drug or alcohol problems
• Utilising clinical supervision

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/212/team-leader--hmp-brixton.html

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