Desistance Recovery and Wellbeing Team Leader
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire
Salary: GBP 30,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 14 Dec 2025
About the role
Are you ready to lead transformational change in a brand-new, innovative custodial service? The Forward Trust Connections Services at HMP Millsike are redefining rehabilitation, recovery, and desistance in custody. With over 30 years of experience empowering people to change their lives, we are building a culture of hope, wellbeing, and community.
We're looking for a Desistance, Recovery, and Wellbeing Team Leader to play a key role in this mission. You'll lead a team of passionate practitioners delivering high‑quality desistance, recovery, and wellbeing services across HMP Millsike and support in the matrix management of Mitie Care and Custody staff working within our More Than My Past community and Incentivised Substance‑Free Living Unit (ISFL). Your work will help bring our vision to life, creating a safer, more supportive environment that inspires change and growth.
Key responsibilities include
* Line‑managing staff delivering programmes such as More Than My Past, Step Back to Step Forward, and Thrive (Resettlement).
* Overseeing operations in the ISFL and ensuring compliance with MoJ standards.
* Promoting wellbeing through workshops, ambassador engagement, and annual wellbeing initiatives.
* Supporting delivery of desistance and recovery programmes across the establishment.
* Collaborating with prison leadership and partners to implement the establishment’s Drug Strategy.
* Managing the Departure Lounge, ensuring prisoners' emotional wellbeing and smooth transition at the point of release.
We’re looking for someone who is
* A motivational leader, passionate about rehabilitation and person‑centred support.
* Skilled in team management and partnership working across complex environments.
* Confident in promoting recovery, wellbeing, and desistance cultures.
* Organised, proactive, and quality‑driven, with a commitment to continuous improvement.
* An excellent communicator who values collaboration, fairness, and professional integrity.
About us
We are The Forward Trust, a 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.
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
* Contribution pension scheme: Employer‑matched contributions up to 6% in the first two years and up to 9% thereafter
* Death in service payment (2× annual salary)
* Critical illness insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
Please be aware that the location of this role is hard to access through public transport.
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