Recovery Counsellor

Recovery Counsellor - HMP Wormwood Scrubs & HMP Brixton

Location: Shepherd’s Bush, London

Salary: £28,877 per annum

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.

What you will be doing?

This role is subject to interim Inner-London 'cost-of-living' *bonus payment scheme*

An additional £1200.00 payment over 12-months (pro rata) paid monthly as a taxable benefit, subject to review.

The Substance Misuse Services at HMP Wormwood Scrubs and HMP Brixton are commissioned to deliver psychosocial interventions within an integrated healthcare framework known as the New Models of Care (NMOC). The team work in close partnership with healthcare services to deliver services across various functions including Early Days in Custody (EDiC), unscheduled care, planned care, release and resettlement. The service is based on site within the prison delivering interventions directly to service users aged 18 and over residing at both prisons. HMP Wormwood Scrubs is a closed category men’s prisons in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, West London, and HMP Brixton in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.

The service takes a recovery orientated and trauma informed approach to delivery of holistic health and wellbeing interventions and various treatment programmes for those coming into the prison who experience drugs and/or alcohol misuse issues.As Recovery Counsellor, you will support the integrated Services to deliver a counselling service using appropriate interventions dependent on the requirements of the individual client.

You will be required to manage a caseload, deliver psychosocial structured 1:1 and group work sessions and group therapy.The role will require you to work collaboratively alongside a team of Recovery Workers to enhance effective engagement of clients in structured treatment programmes and other interventions. As Recovery Counsellor you will be expected to take a proactive approach to building partnerships with mental health, wider healthcare services and the prison.

Please note this role will be based working across both HMP Brixton and HMP Wormwood Scrubs, therefore travel will be required between sites.

What are we looking for?

• To provide counselling assessments and treatment of clients referred into the Footsteps and/or Bridge programmes.
• To formulate and implement cohesive counselling treatment and/or management plans for clients mental health and wellbeing needs, based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s difficulties and to employ methods of therapeutic intervention most appropriate to the individual case.
• To evaluate treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the client.
• To provide counselling advice and consultation to clients when required.
• To contribute directly and indirectly to a psychologically based framework of understanding and care to the benefit of all clients of the Integrated Wellbeing and Recovery service, and agencies serving the client group.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care and to monitor progress, taking into account professional requirements on ethics and confidentiality.

What we offer

• Training opportunities and career development
• Flexible working
• Season ticket loan scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Simply Health - Health Cashback Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (Pro Rata'd for Part Time Employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 Days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (rising to 30 days with length of service)
• Excellent contributory pension scheme. Employer matched contributions of up 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 click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

We reserve the right to close this role early.