As part of a ground-breaking and hugely transformational partnership with Mitie Care & Custody and People Plus, Forward have been successful in its bid to be a top table delivery partner in the operation of HMP Millsike, a brand-new Resettlement Prison situated on land opposite the existing HMP Full Sutton, currently in construction and due to open in April 2025.
This represents a chance for Forward to evolve our mission in a way that will be an integral part of a completely new way of delivering prisons within the prison system, and one that will be a huge reputational boost for our organisation, as the first to have a top table seat in our sector.
Forward Trust is a social justice charity that helps thousands of people to recover from addiction and mental health problems, leave behind crime, find jobs, homes, and a sense of belonging.
We campaign to change public attitudes and policy so that people, who are often written off by society, can access support that transforms lives. We are proud to be the UK’s leading addiction recovery charity, improving public awareness and understanding, demonstrating the potential of people to recover and rebuild their lives.
We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change, as celebrated in our More Than My Past and Taking Action on Addiction campaigns. Forward Trust now have over 70 service delivery projects, with more than 20,000 clients per year supported by 700 staff and 150 volunteers. We are proud that around 30% of our workforce have lived experience of the issues we seek to address.
At HMP Millsike we will be delivering Connections Services. Our Connections services are a suite of interventions for men in recovery, men seeking greater wellbeing and connection with others, partners, friends and families of men in custody, the children of men in custody, and men who have no visitors. For the first time in prison history, Forward Trust as will run the entire Visits programme on behalf of the prison including in person and virtual, official visits, family wellbeing days, specialist visits, family dining, family interventions, with indoor and outdoor space and facilities for all ages and needs.
As a key stakeholder you will support HMP Millsike's Reducing Reoffending strategy, working closely with Residence and Wellbeing, Practice Plus, Tees Weir Valley Health and People Plus you will deliver Forward Trust's innovative 'One Millsike' offer. You will support the mobilisation and deliver our Forward Trust interventions, working in partnership with Mities Care and Custody and HMPPS to successfully mobilise, open and operate HMP Millsike.
Mobilisation has already begun, and the first prisoners will arrive in April 2025. The prison is being constructed and is nearing completion.
We are looking to fill 1.0 FTE Peer Advocate Co-ordinator role. We welcome applicants who would like to work either full-time or part-time and where possible will work with you to accommodate flexible working patterns.
The Peer Advocate Co-ordinator role sits within the Connections Family and Relationship Service, which will provide support to prisoners at HMP Millsike to build and maintain relationships with their families and/or significant others to support their rehabilitation.
The role will report to the Connections Family and Relationship Manager. It will be supported by our central Peer Mentor Lead and team of Peer Co-ordinators.
As the Peer Advocate Co-ordinator you will work in partnership with other Peer Advocate Co-ordinators across Millsike to recruit, train, support and develop Peer Advocates to support with the delivery of Forwards Connections Families and Relationships Service.
The Peer Advocate role is a paid prisoner role and designed to support the delivery of prison services and engagement of other prisoners in these services.
In your role as the Peer Advocate Co-ordinator will also support with the co-ordination of service user involvement, such as collecting feedback and running service user panels, in partnership with the Peer Advocates.
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