Location
Shepherd's Bush, Greater London, England
Industry sector
Charity, Voluntary
Job type
Contract | Full Time
Job start date
ASAP
Posted date
26/01/2026
Closing date
23/02/2026
Prison Release Recovery Worker (Maternity Cover until 12/08/2026)
Location: Shepherd's Bush
Salary: £28,207
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Advertising End Date: 16 Feb 2026
Roles Responsibilities
The Substance Misuse Service at HMP Wormwood Scrubs is commissioned to deliver psychosocial interventions within an integrated healthcare framework known as the New Models of Care (NMOC). The team work in close partnership with healthcare services to deliver services across various functions including Early Days in Custody (EDiC), unscheduled care, planned care, release and resettlement. The service is based on site within the prison delivering interventions directly to service users aged 18 and over residing at HMP Wormwood Scrubs. This is a closed category men's prison in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, West London.
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
Please see below a list of skills and experience needed for this role.
* A thorough knowledge of Criminal Justice services
* An understanding of the issues faced by those experiencing substance misuse treatment
* Experience of providing interventions within a substance misuse service or other relevant healthcare setting
* Managing own workload effectively to deadlines and targets.
* Experience of Multi-disciplinary working including community based agencies
* Good communication skills.
* Good organisational and administrative skills, including IT skills.
* The ability to set and hold sound professional boundaries.
* Understanding of and commitment to, the principles of equal opportunity and service user confidentiality
Please note the role includes an Interim allowance of £3000 reviewed every 6-months, basic salary based on 35 hours would be £25,207.00. This interim scheme will be reviewed in April & October.
All prison-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 5 months to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks.
Please note if you have lived overseas within the last 5 years then checks may take longer.
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)
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your application.
https://careers.forwardtrust.org. html