We are recruiting for a Team Leader at HMP Downview in Sutton.

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.

You will be based on site working within a team that have broad skills mix to deliver combined psychosocial and clinical interventions providing recovery-orientated Health and Wellbeing Services to service users aged 18 and over at: HMP Downview a female closed category prison located in Sutton.

This will involve working directly with those who are detained in the prison who may present low-level mental health needs and/or substance misuse issues.

You will be expected to hold a caseload and deliver interventions (both 1:1 and group based). The service operates 7 days a week therefore weekend working will be a requirement on a rota basis.

As a Team Leader you will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners, providing supervision, training and guidance to practitioners and supporting the unit, management team.