Recovery Navigator

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire

Salary: £24,000

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Advertising End Date: 2nd February 2026

We are recruiting for a Recovery Navigator at HMP Millsike.

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

Forward Trusts Connections Team at HMP Millsike will have responsibility for delivery of a core Connections service including:

• Connections Visits
• Connections Family and Relationship Services
• Connections Desistance and Wellbeing Services

All prison-based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 3-6 months. 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

We are looking for passionate and committed individuals with eagerness to work alongside colleagues within the Connections Health & Wellbeing and Connections Family & Relationships service provision and across HMP Millsike, to champion the supporting & sustaining recovery (SSR) model.

SSR, at its core includes the Recovery Village model (three stages: stabilisation/preparation (e.g. Stabilising OST, BBV Testing, Harm Minimisation); developing recovery longer programmes (e.g., Preparing for Abstinence Programme, Health Promotion, Peer Support, Relationships) and sustaining recovery (e.g. ISFL, Mutual Aid, Relapse Prevention, Employment, Complementary Therapies, Peer-Led Activities)).

Please see a list of skills and experience also needed for this role;

• Knowledge of the issues facing service users in the criminal justice sector and commitment to the process of recovery from addiction and low-level mental health issues
• Excellent experience of criminal justice system and/or mental health work in a related field
• Demonstrable experience of carrying out risk assessments, comprehensive assessments and the design and implementation of SMART recovery plans.
• Experience of carrying out health & wellbeing interventions including using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and therapeutic group settings
• A grounded personality, including the ability to set and maintain professional boundaries
• Demonstrable ability to organise workload, ensuring effective time management and prioritisation to meet targets
• Understanding of, and commitment to the principles of equal opportunity and GDPR requirements including client confidentiality

Benefits

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)

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.

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