Recovery Navigator

We are recruiting for a Recovery Navigator at HMP Millsike.

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

Forward Trust’s Connections Team at HMP Millsike will have responsibility for delivery of a core ‘Connections’ service including:

• Connections Visits
• Connections Family and Relationship Services
• Connections Desistance and Wellbeing Services

As part of our Connections Team, you will help us to create a strong recovery ethos (or ‘ecosystem’) across the prison with a particular focus on our Designated Desistance Wing/ISFL.

Incentivised Substance Free Living (ISFL) – building on Forward’s experience of running ‘recovery wings’ in a variety of prisons.

Access to ‘Forward Connect – Forward’s added value ‘recovery community’ of former clients (ex-offenders and those in recovery) with nationwide membership of over 1,000.

1:1 support and complementary group workshops, such as resilience.

Recovery Themed Promotional Material - Wall-stencilled motivational messages and quotes, case study literature, videos and podcasts from Forward’s More Than My Past campaign.

You will be working as part of a team of twenty skilled individuals and you will be offered a thorough induction at an organisational and service level. Training provided included eLearning live workshops .You will be provided with training from the Prison to support you feeling safe and confident in the expectations of you being a key holder.

All prison-based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 3-6 months . 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

We are looking for passionate and committed individuals with eagerness to work alongside colleagues within the Connections Health & Wellbeing and Connections Family & Relationships service provision and across HMP Millsike, to champion the ‘supporting & sustaining recovery’ (SSR) model.

SSR, at its core includes the ‘Recovery Village’ model (three stages: stabilisation/preparation (e.g. Stabilising OST, BBV Testing, Harm Minimisation); developing recovery longer programmes (e.g., Preparing for Abstinence Programme, Health Promotion, Peer Support, Relationships) and sustaining recovery (e.g. ISFL, Mutual Aid, Relapse Prevention, Employment, Complementary Therapies, Peer-Led Activities)).

Please see a list of skills and experience also needed for this role;

• Knowledge of the issues facing service users in the criminal justice sector and commitment to the process of recovery from addiction and low-level mental health issues
• Excellent experience of criminal justice system and/or mental health work in a related field
• De…