Team Leader: HMP Bronzefield
Location: Ashford
Salary: A GBP 27,992 - A GBP 34,761 per annum
Position Type: Indefinite, Full-Time
The Forward Trust is a UK leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment services to offenders. We deliver treatment and recovery support in prisons and in the community, helping people move away from addiction and crime.
We believe in providing opportunities to all people, including those with Lived Experience. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency, gambling, previous offending, or homelessness.
The Forward Trust provides 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 delivering a wide variety of interventions and integrated pathways tailored to meet the specific needs of each prison and individual service users.
What you will be doing?
You will be based on-site, working within a team that has a broad skills mix, providing recovery-oriented Health and Wellbeing Services to service users aged 18 and over at HMP/YOI Bronzefield located on Woodthorpe Road, Ashford TW15 3JZ. HMP and YOI Bronzefield is a dynamic and forward-thinking women's prison accommodating 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 identified as having alcohol or drug issues.
As a Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of Health and Wellbeing Practitioners, contributing to the targets set by Forward and 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 cooperative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role.
* Support the service manager in developing relations and set team and individual objectives to implement and achieve strategic objectives.
* Take an active role in the implementation and achievement of team objectives and developing supportive relationships with supervisees and other colleagues in the unit.
* Alert the Service manager to any significant risks or problems arising in the course of managing and monitoring the services.
* Ensure case management/programme documentation is maintained to the expected audit standards.
* Support and monitor supervisees to manage their caseload effectively, ensuring clients are prioritised appropriately and seen in a timely manner.
* Ensure that case management interventions are delivered in accordance with the needs of the service users, audited, and CQC compliant.
Please be aware that the service operates 7 days a week; therefore, weekend working on a rota basis will be required.
What we are looking for?
* Experience of working within substance misuse services in a prison.
* Direct line management and/or providing supervision, appraisals, guidance, and constructive feedback to supervisees.
* Experience carrying out comprehensive assessments, designing, and implementing SMART care plans.
* Delivering structured interventions to service users and experience facilitating therapeutic groups.
* Previous experience of working in a 12-step primary care programme utilizing clinical supervision.
What we offer
* Training opportunities and career development.
* Flexible working.
* Employee Wellbeing Days (3 days in addition to annual leave entitlement).
* Electric Car Scheme.
* Crisis Loan Scheme.
* Access to Blue Light Card.
* Simply Health packages.
* Season Ticket Loan Scheme.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus.
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