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  • About The Role

  • We’re looking for a dedicated Substance Misuse Practitioner to join our integrated healthcare team, supporting prisoners aged 18+ with drug, alcohol, and low-level mental health needs.

    You’ll deliver tailored, trauma-informed interventions, from 1:1 sessions to group programmes, helping individuals prepare for release and reintegrate into the community with confidence and support.

    What You’ll Do:

    • Deliver structured 1:1 and group sessions for substance misuse and mental health
    • Create and manage care plans, assessments, and harm reduction strategies
    • Work closely with housing, employment, healthcare, probation, and more
    • Support smooth transitions from custody to community
    • Keep accurate records to track outcomes and meet KPIs

    What You’ll Bring:

    • Experience supporting vulnerable individuals in a structured setting
    • A collaborative, person-centred approach
    • Strong organisational and communication skills
    • Fluency in Welsh (essential)

    Why Join Us?

    • Be part of a mission-driven team changing lives every day
    • Work in a varied, fast-paced environment with real impact
    • Access training, development, and progression opportunities
  • 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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