Family Support Practitioner

Location: London

Salary: £25,154 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 29^th September 2025

We’re Hiring: Family Support Practitioner

Are you passionate about supporting families, strengthening relationships, and helping people build positive futures? Join us as a Family Support Practitioner, where you’ll play a vital role in both prison and community settings, delivering life-changing support to clients and their families.

This role is primarily based within the prison setting; however, as your family support work with prisoners develops, you will also deliver 1:1 sessions remotely from home via online platforms.

 As a Family Support Practitioner, you will:

• Provide specialist 1:1 and group interventions for clients and family members.
• Work in partnership with Forward colleagues and external agencies to deliver holistic care and support.
• Help clients recognise healthy vs. unhealthy relationships, build positive connections, and understand how relationships impact addiction, offending, mental health, and recovery.
• Directly support families and affected others to improve their own wellbeing and empower them to support their loved ones.
• Occasionally work with children and young people, promoting whole family recovery and rehabilitation.

What We’re Looking For

You will bring:

• Experience supporting families affected by addiction, offending, and/or mental health challenges.
• Experience working directly with family members/affected others and facilitating family meetings.
• Strong background in group facilitation and interventions.
• A flexible and adaptable approach to meet evolving service needs.
• A positive, solution-focused attitude with the ability to quickly identify key issues.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage effectively with clients.
• Understanding of the voluntary sector, safeguarding (adults and children/young people), and a strong commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion.

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)

Diversity at Forward Trust

The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/353/family-support-practitioner.html

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