Are you looking for a meaningful career that helps others break the cycle of addiction and live a positive life?

The impact you will have in this role is far more reaching than the day to day contact with service users, the service we provide reverberates through families and society.

The Forward Trust are a social enterprise that empowers people to break the cycle 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 believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with ‘Lived Experience’ we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness.

You will be based on site working across teams that have a broad skills mix delivering recovery-orientated Health and Wellbeing Services in Surrey Prisons. Counselling services will play a key role in enhancing therapeutic programmes and involve working directly with those who are detained in the prison who may present low-level mental health needs and/or substance misuse issues.

Please note these roles are fixed term until December 2026. We are open to both full time and part time applicants.