Family Connections Worker (Probation Services)
Location: Kent
Salary: GBP 24,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Closing date: 28 Jan 2026
About the Role
This role is full‑time, permanent, 35 hours per week. Forward Trust delivers services within the Commissioned Rehabilitative Services (CRS) as part of the Ministry of Justice’s new probation system. We are seeking a Family Connections Practitioner to work remotely as part of a flexible and supportive team, delivering Family and Significant Others interventions within our wider Personal Wellbeing Service.
The role focuses on supporting adult men and young men within the Criminal Justice System, providing tailored, client‑centred interventions that strengthen family relationships, improve wellbeing, and promote positive change. You will manage a caseload and deliver structured 1:1 and group‑based interventions, offering advice, guidance, assessments, care planning, and outcome‑focused support aligned to individual needs.
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver client‑centred Family and Significant Others interventions
* Manage and prioritise a caseload effectively
* Complete risk assessments, comprehensive assessments, and SMART care plans
* Deliver structured 1:1 sessions and therapeutic group work
* Use psychosocial and motivational interviewing techniques to support behaviour change
* Work collaboratively with partner agencies to achieve positive outcomes
* Contribute to performance targets set by Forward Trust, Interventions Alliance, and local commissioners
* Accurately record outcomes and progress to support service evaluation
Flexibility Requirements
* Occasional evening and weekend working
* Travel (with reasonable notice) to other projects within your cluster to support continuity of care
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience
* Knowledge of the issues facing clients within the criminal justice sector
* Strong experience working in Personal Wellbeing or related services (e.g. families, emotional wellbeing, lifestyles, social inclusion)
* Demonstrable experience completing risk assessments, comprehensive assessments, and implementing SMART care plans
* Significant experience delivering psychosocial interventions, including motivational interviewing, in both 1:1 and group settings
* Knowledge of the criminal justice sector
* Understanding of the Recovery Agenda
Desirable
* Lived experience of addiction or imprisonment
* Applicants in recovery must have a minimum of 3 years abstinence
* Applicants with lived experience of imprisonment must have been released at least 5 years ago
About Us
We are The Forward Trust, a social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the 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 and have supported thousands of people to achieve positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
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 for part‑time employees)
* Access to Blue Light Card
* 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
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