Family Support Practitioner - HMP Millsike - East Riding of Yorkshire at The Forward Trust

Position Family Support Practitioner - HMP Millsike - East Riding of Yorkshire
Posted 05 Jun 2026
Expired 05 Jul 2026
Company The Forward Trust
Location East Riding of Yorkshire | GB
Job Type Full Time

Job Description:

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We are recruiting for a Family Support Practitioner at HMP Millsike.

Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment. Our support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes.

The Forward Trust services which are delivered within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and are delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are integral to the work we do.

We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past. Our work in prisons aims to support those affected by drug or alcohol issues to create lasting change and reduce dependency, homelessness, unemployment and re-offending.

Roles Responsibilities

Part of the Family Support and Specialist Programmes department, the Family Support Practitioner role will work in both their allocated prison and local community, providing specialist support to clients and family members through the delivery of effective 1:1 and group interventions. The role is also required to work closely with other Forward staff and external partners to ensure a holistic package of care and support is provided.

Recognising the importance of relationships in the lives of the people we support is crucial to providing the best possible treatment and services. This role will focus specifically on supporting clients to recognise healthy and unhealthy relationships, build new relationships and understand the role relationships play in their addiction, offending, mental health and other areas of need.

The Family Support Practitioner will also directly support family members and affected others, helping them to improve their health and wellbeing and help them to support clients to make positive changes. This role may be expected to work directly with children and young people, to promote whole family recovery and rehabilitation.

Checks will require you to provide information on the below:

  • Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
  • Your family (parents, parents partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
  • Co-residents
  • Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
  • Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
  • Credit reference checks
  • Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that's publicly available on the internet to ensure there's nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
  • Other government and overseas agency or police checks.

The Ideal Candidate

Below is a list of the qualities that we are looking for in applicants to this post.

  • 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.

    To find out more about Forwards commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy clickhere.


    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.

    Job Info:

    • Company: The Forward Trust
    • Position: Family Support Practitioner - HMP Millsike - East Riding of Yorkshire
    • Work Location: East Riding of Yorkshire
    • Country: GB

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