Desistance Recovery and Wellbeing Service Manager

Desistance, Recovery, and Wellbeing Service Manager - HMP Millsike

Location: East Riding of Yorkshire

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 14 Dec 2025

About The Role

Are you a dynamic leader passionate about transforming lives in custody? Forward Trust is seeking a Desistance, Recovery, and Wellbeing Service Manager to lead our innovative Connections Services at HMP Millsike, Yorkshire.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and line-manage facilitators, wellbeing practitioners, and recovery staff
• Matrix manage Prisoner Custody Officers across key units
• Oversee flagship programmes: More Than My Past, Step Back to Step Forward, Thrive, and the Incentivised Substance Free Living Unit
• Lead the prison's Drug Strategy and embed a culture of desistance, recovery, and wellbeing
• Maintain programme standards, staffing competence, and engaging activity schedules

What We're Looking For:

• Strong leadership and team management experience
• Proven ability to implement and oversee complex programmes
• Experience working in custodial or rehabilitation settings is highly desirable
• Exceptional organisational, communication, and relationship-building skills
• Passion for transforming lives and building positive prison culture

Be aware that the location of this role is hard to access through public transport.

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)

To Apply

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