Team Leader - HMP Bronzefield
Location: Middlesex-Ashford
Salary: £27,992 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
About The Role
Ready to lead with purpose and make a real difference?
Join The Forward Trust as a Team Leader based on-site at HMP/YOI Bronzefield in Ashford (35 hours per week, including weekend rota). You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary team delivering trauma-informed, gender-responsive substance misuse services within a dynamic women’s prison, supporting individuals on their journey to recovery and reintegration. Please note: Level 2 vetting clearance is required prior to starting in post.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll be at the centre of both leadership and frontline delivery:
* Lead, motivate, and develop a team delivering high-quality interventions
* Hold a caseload, facilitating 1:1 and group programmes
* Complete assessments and shape personalised treatment and release plans
* Provide supervision, coaching, and performance support to practitioners
* Collaborate across prison, healthcare, and mental health services
* Ensure delivery meets CQC standards, KPIs, and contractual targets
* Step in to oversee service delivery in the absence of the Service Manager
What we’re looking for
A confident, hands-on leader who thrives in a complex environment:
* Experience in substance misuse, criminal justice, or health settings
* Strong leadership and team development skills
* Ability to manage caseloads and deliver impactful interventions
* Commitment to trauma-informed, person-centred care
* Excellent communication and partnership-building abilities
You’ll be joining a forward-thinking organisation where your work has genuine impact every day.
This role offers the opportunity to shape and influence a vital frontline service while working alongside a supportive, multidisciplinary team. With access to ongoing training and professional development, you’ll be encouraged to grow your skills while playing a key role in supporting lasting recovery and meaningful change for the women you work with.
Step into a role where leadership meets purpose, and everyday counts.
All prison-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 5 months to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks.
Please note if you have lived overseas within the last 5 years then checks may take longer.
As part of the interview stage, candidates will be required to deliver a short presentation (up to 10 minutes). Further details will be provided in advance, along with the job description to support your preparation.
About Us
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.
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits -
* Flexible working
* Training and development opportunities
* Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
* Season Ticket Loan Scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Crisis Loan Scheme
* Electric Car Scheme
* 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
* Access to Blue Light Card
* 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
* Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
* Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
* Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application