Trainee Day Programme Facilitator

Location: Dover

Salary: £21,840 per annum

Vacancy Type: Contract, Full Time

Closing Date: 23^rd September 2025

We are offering an exciting Traineeship Opportunity for motivated individuals looking to start a rewarding career in health and social care. As part of this traineeship, you will shadow an experienced team member, gaining hands-on experience, training, and guidance to help you build the skills and confidence needed to succeed in the role.

You will benefit from regular reviews to track your progress, personalised mentoring, and structured development. Alongside practical work experience, you will also study towards a recognised qualification (subject to eligibility criteria).

What You’ll Be Doing
During your traineeship, you will develop key skills and experience in areas such as:

• Planning and managing a caseload effectively
• Reviewing ongoing care and treatment in collaboration with healthcare and other agencies
• Co-facilitating groups and programmes to a professional standard
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary, integrated team
• Collecting and recording data for audit, research, and reporting purposes
• Carrying out assessments (risk/initial/comprehensive) to support tailored treatment journeys
• Delivering 1:1 sessions and facilitating group work/programmes
• Supporting through-care needs and helping clients develop meaningful recovery plans

What We’re Looking For
We are seeking enthusiastic, committed, and resilient individuals who are eager to learn and grow within a supportive environment. The ideal trainee will demonstrate:

• Proactivity – quick thinking and the ability to use initiative
• Resilience – problem-solving skills and the ability to learn from setbacks
• Adaptability – comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Confidence – clear communication and belief in your abilities
• Teamwork – the ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues
• Openness to Feedback – willingness to learn and improve through guidance
• Innovation – always seeking better ways of working

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/325/trainee-day-programme-facilitator.html

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