Health and Wellbeing Coordinator

Salary: A GBP 24,000 : A GBP 26,000 per annum

We are looking for a Health and Wellbeing Coordinator. This is an exciting new opportunity to join our new Prison : HMP Millsike.

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles 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.

HMP Millsike, the UKs newest, and first green prison, is due to open in early 2025, run by Mitie Care and Custody on behalf of the Ministry of Justice. The Forward Trust is a strategic partner to Mitie Care and Custody, providing our Connections Services across the prison and supporting a restorative and rehabilitative culture that enables prisoners to unlock their potential.

What you will be doing?

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 Health and Wellbeing and Substance Misuse Services

The HAWC Co:ordinator role sits within the Connections Health and Wellbeing and Recovery Service, which will provide support to prisoners at HMP Millsike to maintain their recovery and support their health and wellbeing.

The role will report to the Connections Health and Wellbeing Manager. It will be supported by our central team of HAWC co:ordinators and be required to work alongside prison Healthcare and Substance Misuse teams to co:ordinate services. It will also be expected to work in close partnership with Forward HMP Millsike Peer Advocate Co:Ordinator to ensure seamless service delivery.

The HAWC Co:Ordinator will recruit/manage a team of prisoners recruited as Health and Wellbeing Champions (HAWCs) to deliver a range of interventions to promote recovery and health and wellbeing across HMP Millsike.

HAWCs support Prisoner Service Users (PSUs) to engage with other professionals/service providers and attend appointments, ensuring PSUs know their appointment date and location, how to get there, providing appointment reminders, and following up afterwards.

The HAWC Co:Ordinator will work with other agencies including the Substance Misuse and Healthcare Provider to:

• Identify and recruit HAWCs
• Provide them with training, support and supervision
• Conduct regular check ins with HAWCs
• Deal with any issues that HAWCs raise e.g., where they are concerned about a Service User.

The HAWC Co:ordinator will coordinate HAWC activities on each wing, ensuring that they deliver a core programme of support, such as Visible Recovery Workshops, in:house Mutual Aid Meetings, 1:1 support, practical advice/info, and general health advice/support. Exact activities will be agreed with prison healthcare and substance misuse teams and planned within a co:developed health and wellbeing /recovery strategy and annual calendar.

What we are looking for?

As a Health and Wellbeing Coordinator, you will possess the following skills :

• Knowledge of the issues facing service users in the criminal justice sector and commitment to the process of recovery from addiction
• Knowledge of desistance and an authentic passion for and belief in rehabilitation
• Demonstrable experience of managing high caseloads, carrying
• out risk/ comprehensive assessments, SMART action plans and
• effective case records
• Experience of delivering both 1:1 and group:work interventions
• using motivational techniques
• A grounded personality, including the ability to set and maintain professional boundarie