Family Connections Worker : Crewe
Location: Crewe
Salary: A GBP 24,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 17 Dec 2025
About The Role
We are currently recruiting for a Family Connections Worker to join our team in Crewe.
We are Forward, the social enterprise that empowers people to break the cycle of crime and addiction to move forward and live fulfilling lives.
We deliver a range of MOJ Commissioned Rehabilitative services (CRS) directly for Probation in three key areas: Accommodation, Personal Wellbeing and Dependency and Recovery. Accommodation is delivered in Wales, Dependency and Recovery in London and Humberside, Personal Wellbeing in East of England, Sussex, Surrey and as a subcontractor in Kent and Cheshire.
These services work with Men 18+ who are under probation supervision, supporting them to navigate through their desired outcomes in order to achieve transformational change, break the cycle of offending and achieve long:term integration into society.
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. No matter what your past, we believe anyone is capable of lasting change
Role Responsibilities
You will be working remotely as part of a flexible team of Family Connections practitioners, specifically delivering as part of the wider personal well:being service, Family and Significant others interventions to support adult men and young men in the Criminal Justice system. The support is tailored to individual needs, delivering a range of programmes within the categories of Family and Significant others.
The Family Connections practitioner will deliver client centred support depending on the requirements of the individual client. You will be required to manage a caseload, provide appropriate advice and guidance, assess, care plan; deliver structured 1:1 and group:work sessions.
You will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward, Interventions Alliance, whom sub:contract Forward Trust to deliver Family and Significant Others service and local commissioners. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co:operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role.
Flexibility will be required in this role, this may include some evening/weekend shift and with reasonable notice to travel to other projects in your cluster to deliver Health and wellbeing services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.
The Ideal Candidate
Please see a list of skills and experience needed for this role below;
* Knowledge of the issues facing clients in the criminal justice sector.
* Excellent experience of working in the Personal Well Being or related services such as Families, lifestyles, emotional well being and social inclusion.
* Demonstrable experience of carrying out risk assessments, comprehensive assessments and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
* Significant experience of carrying out psychosocial interventions including using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and therapeutic group settings.
* Knowledge of the criminal justice sector
* Knowledge of the Recovery Agenda.
Please note we reserve the right to close this role early.
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 a