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.

We are currently recruiting for a Regional Peer Coordinator.

Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over, the Integrated Substance Misuse Service is designed to deliver a combination of clinical, Psychosocial Substance Misuse and Health and Wellbeing Interventions and Accredited Treatment Programmes for offenders coming into prison that are identified as having an alcohol or drug problem.

As a Peer Coordinator you will support the team and the prison to champion the integrated service and train service users to become peer supporters who deliver peer-led interventions and become peer supporters across all wings of the prison.

You will also support and develop Health & Wellbeing Champions within the prisons.

Their roles will be to motivate and encourage clients to start taking greater responsibility for their health and wellbeing whilst in custody, and they will discuss and share the issues which they are concerned about by signposting and supporting them to the relevant services within the prison, and with agreement from the prison deliver interventions to other peers.