Group Programme Facilitator - HMP Brixton
Location: Brixton
Salary: £30,222.00 pro rata
Vacancy Type: Contract
*Please note this role is a 3 year fixed-term contract and part-time, 30 hours per week*
About the Role
The Substance Misuse Service at HMP Brixton delivers psychosocial interventions within an integrated healthcare framework, working in partnership with healthcare and prison colleagues to support men with drug and alcohol-related needs. Our approach is recovery-orientated and trauma-informed, focusing on wellbeing, behaviour change and sustained recovery.
We are seeking a Therapeutic Group Programme Facilitator to lead the coordination and delivery of our structured therapeutic group programme, including Stepping Stones, SDTP and The Bridge. You will play a central role in supporting service users to engage in meaningful recovery pathways while ensuring the delivery of high-quality interventions.
This is a unique, charitably funded role designed to strengthen recovery culture across the prison. You will contribute to expanding mutual aid activity and overseeing the involvement of lived experience volunteers, helping to create a supportive, peer-led recovery environment.
Working closely with the management team and wider multidisciplinary colleagues, you will oversee the day-to-day operational delivery of programmes and recovery activity, ensuring services are safe, effective, and compliant with organisational and prison standards.
Key responsibilities include:
Coordinating and delivering structured therapeutic group programmes
Managing referrals, assessments, admissions and programme timetables
Co-facilitating group and 1:1 interventions aligned with programme models
Supporting colleagues to deliver high-quality, consistent interventions
Promoting clear recovery pathways, including mutual aid and peer support
Leading the development of mutual aid and lived experience initiatives
Coordinating and supporting lived experience volunteers and peer supporters
Monitoring programme performance, attendance, outcomes and data reporting
Building strong partnerships with prison, healthcare and external stakeholders
Supporting service development through feedback, data and evaluation
About You
You are a passionate and motivated professional with experience in substance misuse services and a strong commitment to supporting recovery in a custodial setting. You bring both practical delivery skills and the ability to coordinate programmes effectively, ensuring high standards and meaningful outcomes for service users.
You will be confident facilitating groups, delivering structured interventions, and using motivational techniques to engage individuals at different stages of change. You are also collaborative, organised, and able to build positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
Essential experience and skills:
Experience working within substance misuse services
Experience delivering structured interventions to service users
Strong group facilitation skills
Experience using motivational interviewing in 1:1 and group settings
Commitment to promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Strong IT skills to support programme coordination and reporting
Desirable:
Experience coordinating group programmes and managing timetables
You will also demonstrate:
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
The ability to motivate and support both service users and peers
Strong organisational and problem-solving abilities
A flexible approach to working hours, including evenings and weekends 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