Family Support Practitioner

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Tip Top Job , Sutton Howgrave, England, United Kingdom

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Location:

East Riding of Yorkshire

Salary: GBP 24,000

Vacancy Type:
Permanent

Advertising End Date: 2 February 2026

We are recruiting for a Family Support Practitioner at HMP Millsike. Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the prison environment, providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes. Our services in prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS.

Integration and partnership are integral to our work.

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.

• Part of the Family Support and Specialist Programmes department, the Family Support Practitioner will work in both their allocated prison and local community, providing specialist support to clients and family members through the delivery of effective 1:1 and group interventions.
• Work closely with other Forward staff and external partners to ensure a holistic package of care and support.
• Support clients to recognise healthy and unhealthy relationships, build new relationships, and understand the role relationships play in addiction, offending, mental health and other areas of need.
• Directly support family members and affected others, helping them to improve their health and wellbeing and to support clients in making positive changes.
• May work directly with children and young people to promote whole family recovery and rehabilitation.
• All prison-based roles require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. The process can take up to 3–6 months. Offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.

• Provide information on yourself (personal, financial, police information, criminal history).
• Provide information on your family (parents, partner, siblings, children).
• Co-residents; relationships that may present a conflict of interest with the role or prison service.
• Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates.
• Credit reference checks; social media and open-source checks (publicly available content online) to ensure there is nothing that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service.
• Other government and overseas agency or police checks.

• Experience of providing family-related support to clients with a history of addiction, offending and mental health problems.
• Experience of providing support directly to family members/affected others.
• Experience of working with complex families and facilitating family meetings.
• Experience of delivering group interventions/facilitating group work with clients.
• A flexible and adaptable approach to meet the needs of the service as it develops.
• A positive problem-solving approach with the ability to focus on key issues quickly and clearly.
• Excellent communication skills.
• The ability to engage effectively with the client group.
• Understanding of the voluntary sector.
• Understanding of and sensitivity to the needs of others.

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Health Care Provider

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