About the Role
We are recruiting for a Drug & Alcohol Recovery Team Administrator at HMP Rye Hill.
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
The Administrator is responsible for providing a comprehensive business administration service to support the Drug & Alcohol Recovery Team (DART) at HMP Rye Hill. The service is designed to deliver psychosocial interventions, group work, holistic therapies and additional interventions for prisoners coming into prison that are identified as having a drug or alcohol problem.
You will be responsible for contributing and monitoring the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role (example clinical teams, offender managers and prison custody officers). The purpose of this post is to ensure the smooth administration of the service, encompassing some secretarial duties, data entry collection and monitoring systems.
Additional Duties and Supervision
- Take on other reasonable tasks and responsibilities as deemed appropriate by line management
- Engage in Quarterly Management Meetings (QLM)
- Assist the team in supervising prisoners inclusive of searching and supervising moves to other areas of the prison when needed
- Be part of the DART Garden intervention, supervising low and medium risk prisoners
- Communicate with residential unit staff to ensure prisoners allocated to any DART Intervention arrive
- Complete some scheduling tasks
You will be working as part of a team of ten 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 8-12 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.
- An intermediate certification or demonstrable experience in Microsoft packages.
- A minimum of nine months experience of providing administrative support within a large team, demonstrating ability to work in a pressured environment.
- Strong experience working with data surrounding drug and alcohol treatment – knowledge of NDTMS or other related Experience.
- Experience of accurately collating statistical information, with an attention to detail and report writing.
- Experience of developing, implementing or maintaining large databases and managing administrative tasks associated with them.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deal with people of all levels and to work on own initiative in preparing correspondence.
- Willingness to develop an understanding of the aims of Forward and support the organisations ethos