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Drug and Alcohol Practitioner
Location: Chelmsford
Salary: £26,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Fixed Term 12 months
Closing Date: 15th of October 2026
HMP Chelmsford is a busy local remand prison, and we are looking for a dedicated and compassionate Substance Misuse Practitioner to join our team.
The successful candidate will provide client-centred support to prisoners experiencing problematic substance misuse, using both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches depending on the individual needs of each client.
Working as part of an integrated healthcare team, you will play a key role in supporting people to make positive changes, reduce substance-related harm and prepare for a successful transition back into the community.
What you ll be doing
Supporting clients with access to services including: Housing, Employment, Healthcare, Probation, Gym and wellbeing services, Transitional services, External Drug Intervention Teams, Contributing to the targets and outcomes set by Forward and local commissioners. Maintaining accurate and up-to-date case notes and records. Producing high-quality progress reports for clients where required, ensuring information is appropriate for the intended audience. Working as part of an integrated healthcare framework and contributing positively to the wider multidisciplinary team. Building effective professional relationships with clients and partner agencies to support positive outcomes.
What we re looking for
This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference to people s lives. By providing consistent, person-centred support during custody and helping clients access the right services before release, you will play an important role in reducing substance-related harm and supporting successful resettlement in the community.
Please note HMPPS vetting is needed for this role and can take up to 12 weeks. Please also see the job description attached for more information.
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 -
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.
Safety, Health & Wellbeing Practitioner
Location: Sheffield
Contract: 6 Months
Sector: Defence
Our defence client is seeking an experienced Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HS&W) Practitioner to join their Sheffield site on an initial 6-month contract click apply for full job details
Family and Relationships Practitioner (Children's Specialist)
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire
Salary: £26,000 per annum
About The Role
Help children feel safe, supported and connected when visiting a loved one in prison.
Forward Trust s Connections Team at HMP Millsike is responsible for delivering a range of services that support people in prison and their families, including Connections Visits, Family and Relationship Services, and Health and Wellbeing and Substance Misuse Services.
We are looking for a compassionate, enthusiastic and child-focused Family and Relationships Practitioner (Children s Specialist) to join our team at HMP Millsike.
Visiting a family member in prison can be an emotional and challenging experience for children. In this role, you will help create a safe, welcoming and supportive environment where children can feel comfortable, express themselves through play and enjoy positive interactions with their loved ones.
You will play an important role in reducing the emotional stress associated with prison visits by providing age-appropriate activities, encouraging positive family relationships and ensuring children s emotional, social and developmental needs are considered throughout their visit.
If you are passionate about supporting children and families, and want to make a meaningful difference to the experiences of children affected by parental or family imprisonment, we would love to hear from you.
What you will be doing
What we are looking for
We are looking for someone who is caring, patient and enthusiastic about helping children feel safe and supported in what can be an unfamiliar and emotionally challenging environment.
You will bring:
This is an opportunity to make a real difference to children and families affected by imprisonment. By helping children experience safer, more positive and supportive visits, you will contribute to maintaining family relationships and supporting children s wellbeing.
As part of Forward Trust s Connections Team at HMP Millsike, you will contribute to a service that recognises the importance of family connections and the positive impact these can have on individuals and their loved ones.
Your work will help create meaningful experiences for children, giving them opportunities to play, connect and spend valuable time with their family members in a supportive environment.
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Please note that remote roles may require occasional travel for site visits, training and meetings.
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.
Family Practitioner - Refugee Safeguarding Team
Contract: 3 months (rolling)
Rate - 23 (umbrella)
Location: Havant
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team dedicated to improving outcomes for children and families.
As a Family Practitioner, you'll be at the heart of early help and intervention work - building strong, trusting relationships with families, empowering them to overcome challenges, and helping them thrive. You'll work closely with children, parents, and professionals to provide practical, emotional, and tailored support that makes a lasting difference.
As a Family Practitioner, you will be a key member of a dedicated and supportive team working to improve outcomes for children and families. You will manage a small caseload of settled children, providing tailored support and interventions that respond to each family's unique circumstances. Working closely with social workers and other professionals, you will contribute to assessing needs and developing comprehensive family plans. Your role will involve delivering a variety of tasks and interventions within the strengths-based Hampshire Approach, helping families build on their existing strengths and achieve lasting positive change.
This is a hybrid role, where the office is based in Havant and visits are required locally along with some home working.
Responsibilities
Desirable Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience, Skills and Behaviours
About us:
Connect2Hampshire is a managed service agency owned by Hampshire County Council providing temporary, contract and interim opportunities into the Council. Our service is built on our values of ethical, trustworthy, and caring, and our profits are returned to our Local Authority shareholders.
Connect2Hampshire is a trading style of Hampshire & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Hampshire County Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Hampshire is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
Empower Lives. Build Confidence.
At Hft, a leading Social Care provider, we stand alongside learning disabled adults, empowering them to live life their way. As a Support Practitioner specialising in Autism, you ll play a vital role in creating opportunities, building confidence, and helping people achieve their goals in everyday life.
Every day will be different: from cooking meals and planning weekly shops, to outdoor adventures, live gigs, or simply building confidence in public transport. What matters most is that you ll be there to enable choice, dignity, and independence supporting people to live the life they choose.
What You ll Be Doing
Every day is different, but your role focuses on empowering independence, choice, and dignity:
Who you are
Life at Hft
What We Offer
Accessibility: We believe everyone should have the support they need to succeed. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application process or in the role itself, Hft - proudly a Disability Confident Employer - is committed to ensuring disabled people can apply, succeed, and thrive with us.
Background checks: We re committed to keeping the people we support safe, so this role requires a satisfactory DBS and background checks. Don t worry; we ll guide you through the process.
Previous experience in supporting individuals with Autism is essential.
The starting salary for this full-time, permanent position is 34,660 per annum based on a 36 hour working week.
The Safer Team provides rapid and intensive support to vulnerable children who go missing, are at risk of, or are experiencing extra-familial harm, and in situations where safer context work is required within local communities. The team also works across and supports the wider functions of the Central Hub within Surrey's Adolescent Service.
We support hybrid working with the right balance; supporting a mixture of working from home, in the office, and working with children and their networks for the rest of the time.
Our Offer to You
About The Role
The Safer Team supports young people and their families through a strengths based, trauma informed approach, delivering intensive interventions for those at risk of or experiencing extra familial harm. This includes Return Home Interviews, contextual safeguarding work within communities, group work in schools and other settings, as well as one to one work with children and carers.
Working alongside Social Workers, Early Help practitioners and wider Children's Services teams, the Safer Team helps ensure support plans are effective in increasing safety for a child, and young people receive the right help at the right time. The team also provides specialist guidance across locality hubs, promoting consistent and effective contextual safeguarding practice.
The biggest impact you will have will be on the lives of children. If you are passionate about wanting to work with children and young people to achieve positive change, then being an Adolescent Practitioner within the Safer Team will provide you with opportunities to support some of the most vulnerable young people in Surrey.
Your Application
In order to be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence the following skills and align with our behaviours:
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 25/10/2025 with interviews planned to follow.
Local Government Reorganisation (LGR)
Surrey County Council is undergoing Local Government Reorganisation and will move to new authorities in April 2027. This role is currently employed by Surrey County Council and will remain so until then. If you are employed by Surrey County Council on 1 April 2027, your employment will transfer under TUPE arrangements to one of the new councils, with your current terms and conditions protected. The provisional allocation for this post is East Surrey subject to final confirmation through the wider transition process later this year.
Our Commitment
We are a disability confident employer which means if you have shared a disability on your application form and have evidenced you meet the minimum shortlisting criteria, as displayed on the advert, we guarantee you an interview.
Your skills and experience truly matter to us. From application to your first day, we're committed to supporting you with any adjustments you need, we value inclusion and warmly welcome you to join and help build a workplace where everyone belongs.
Recovery Practitioner
Location: Swansea
Salary: £26,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate Recovery Practitioner to join our team, working within an integrated healthcare framework to support prisoners aged 18 and over.
Our services provide psychosocial drug and alcohol interventions and accredited treatment programmes for people entering prison who have been identified as experiencing problems with drugs and/or alcohol. We use a person-centred approach, combining harm reduction and abstinence-based interventions according to the individual needs and recovery goals of each client.
As a Recovery Practitioner, you will manage your own caseload and provide high-quality support throughout a person's treatment journey. This will include:
This is a rewarding role where you will have the opportunity to make a genuine difference to people affected by substance misuse, supporting them to develop the skills, confidence and resilience needed to move forward with their lives.
About You
We are looking for someone who is compassionate, resilient and committed to supporting people affected by substance misuse and related challenges. You will have the ability to build trusting relationships while maintaining clear professional boundaries and working effectively within a complex environment.
You will ideally have experience of working within mental health or substance misuse services, with a strong understanding of the issues faced by people experiencing drug and/or alcohol problems and low-level mental health needs.
You will have experience of:
You will also have:
We recognise the value that lived experience can bring to our services. Personal experience of addiction and/or imprisonment may be considered where applicants meet the relevant requirements. For applicants with lived experience of addiction, a minimum of three years' recovery is required. For applicants with previous experience of imprisonment, a minimum of five years since release is required.
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 -
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.
Our client, Leeds Council is looking for an Advanced Practitioner to join their Children's Locality service.
Based in Deacon House, LS14, free parking available.
We are looking for an experienced social worker who is able to manage a caseload comprising of Child and Family Assessments, Child in Need, Child Protection, Child Care Proceedings until permanence. This caseload will have a level of complexity and lead worker responsibilities working alongside other social workers, it will not have supervisory / line manager responsibilities. Social workers should be able to practice restoratively with child and families and promote family led decisions to manage risk and meet support needs.
Applicants must demonstrate excellent relational work with children and families and be able to engage children through direct work and child centred practice.
Organisation skills and ability to meet competing demands are required to ensure practice standards, good quality and practice and performance.
The post requires workers to have good analytical assessment skills and with high quality written work.
Social workers will need to work as part of a busy but supportive team and share their knowledge and skills to promote the learning culture.
Applicants must be able to drive and have use of a car.
37 hours per week 8.30 - 5pm.
Must be office based for duty but hybrid working is negotiable dependant on the needs of the team (due to the relational approach of the organisation, it is envisaged this will be office based on duty weeks and one WFH home day/compressed hours on non-duty).
Must have a clean DBS.
Benefits of working with Remedy
Terms & Conditions apply
You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.
Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.
Paediatric ADHD Practitioner
Part-time Sessional
Our client is seeking an experienced Paediatric ADHD Practitioner to join a growing multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality private neurodevelopmental services.
This is an excellent opportunity for a clinician with experience in assessing and managing ADHD in children and young people to work within a well-established private outpatient service committed to providing evidence-based, patient-centred care.
The Role
You will play a key role in providing comprehensive ADHD assessments, diagnosis (where within your professional scope of practice), treatment planning and ongoing management for children and adolescents referred to the service.
Working alongside Consultant Paediatricians and allied health professionals, you will support children, young people and their families from assessment through to ongoing treatment and review.
Key Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
Where appropriately qualified and working within agreed governance arrangements, you may also:
About You
We are looking for a compassionate and experienced clinician who is committed to improving outcomes for children and young people with ADHD.
Applicants should be:
What's on Offer
Advanced Care Practitioner
We are looking for experienced Advanced Care Practitioner (ACP) to join a busy, patient-focused primary care service delivering high-quality urgent and same-day care.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated clinician who enjoys autonomous practice while working within a supportive multidisciplinary team. You'll assess, diagnose, treat and refer patients presenting with a wide range of undifferentiated and acute conditions, helping deliver safe, effective and timely care.
Key Responsibilities
About You
You'll be a confident and compassionate practitioner with excellent clinical judgement and strong communication skills.
Essential Requirements
What We're Looking For
The successful candidate will be:
Description:
Connect2Kent recruit exclusively for Kent County Council. We recruit for a range of Social Work position's both Locum and Permanent.
Kent County Council are Ofsted rated as 'Outstanding'. We are currently recruiting for a Senior Practitioner to join the Children's Social Work Team Covering Dartford and Surrounding areas. Previous experience is required working in Children's Social Work Team.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Manage a caseload of complex and difficult cases involving assessment, planning and implementation and evaluation of appropriate action to ensure resources are utilised effectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and their families Contribute to raising and maintaining standards of professional social work within a social work team, develop areas of specialist practice, offer expert advice to less experienced staff, supervise unqualified staff and act as a Practice Assessor for students/ASYE. The postholder should be working in line with the relevant standards set out in the Social Care Capability Framework (SCCF).
Manage a caseload of complex cases involving high levels of risk and needs to a high standard to ensure resources are utilised effectively
Provide a high quality resource of professional social work knowledge and expertise to a team of Social Workers, to include student supervision, chairing complex meetings, assisted fieldwork, attendance in court, case audits and reviews etc, to assist the team in ensuring that it carries out its core tasks to a high standard.
Provide coaching and mentoring support to Social Workers, including those undertaking social work training, to support and further their professional knowledge and development to impact upon the overall quality of practice within teams.
Attend court, where appropriate, to assist the team in ensuring that key professional input and expertise is provided to high profile and sensitive cases.
Act as Practice Assessor to support student placements/ASYE.
Liaise regularly with colleagues throughout the Council to ensure social work staff deliver existing and new practices consistently and to a high standard.
Contribute to the development of new initiatives through attendance or leadership on working groups, multiagency forums, training courses etc and acting as lead for identified service initiatives, i.e. planning for permanence and research work, to develop current and new ways of working that meet service requirements.
Maintain awareness of changes in legislation and related policies and practices and ensure all social work staff are also informed of these changes to enable consistent and timely implementation.
Connect2Kent is a trading style of Commercial Services Kent LTD - A company wholly owned by Kent County Council. Connect2Kent is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
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