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  • About The Role

  • Are you passionate about helping people rebuild their lives and strengthen relationships?

    We're looking for a Family Connections Worker based in Cheshire to join our team. You’ll play a key role in the wider Personal Wellbeing Service, delivering tailored Family and Significant Others interventions to adult and young men in the Criminal Justice system.

    As a Family Connections Worker, you’ll deliver client-centred support that adapts to each individual’s needs. You’ll be providing a blend of 1:1 and group interventions across the Family & Significant Others programme areas.

    Your responsibilities will include:

    • Managing a varied caseload with professionalism and empathy
    • Completing assessments, developing care plans, and offering ongoing advice and guidance
    • Delivering structured 1:1 and group-work sessions
    • Building effective working relationships with partner agencies
    • Contributing to key targets set by Forward, Interventions Alliance, and local commissioners, with a strong focus on outcomes

    What We’re Looking For:

    • Strong communication and relationship-building skills
    • A proactive, client-centred approach
    • Flexibility to work occasional evenings/weekends
    • Willingness to travel within the Cheshire cluster (with notice) to support continuity of care

    You’ll be part of a supportive team committed to improving wellbeing and strengthening family relationships for individuals in the Criminal Justice system. Your work will create real, lasting change.

    Please see attached Job Description for full details.

  • About Us

  • 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.

    We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits - 
    • Flexible working
    • Training and development opportunities
      • Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
      • Season Ticket Loan Scheme 
      • Cycle to work scheme
      • Crisis Loan Scheme
      • Electric Car Scheme
      • 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
      • Access to Blue Light Card
      • 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays 
      • Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 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)
      Diversity at Forward Trust
      The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

      When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

      To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.  


      Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
      We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

      If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.

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