About the Role
The Substance Misuse Service at HMP Brixton delivers psychosocial interventions within an integrated healthcare framework, working in partnership with healthcare and prison colleagues to support men with drug and alcohol-related needs. Our approach is recovery-orientated and trauma-informed, focusing on wellbeing, behaviour change and sustained recovery.
We are seeking a Therapeutic Group Programme Facilitator to lead the coordination and delivery of our structured therapeutic group programme, including Stepping Stones, SDTP and The Bridge. You will play a central role in supporting service users to engage in meaningful recovery pathways while ensuring the delivery of high-quality interventions.
This is a unique, charitably funded role designed to strengthen recovery culture across the prison. You will contribute to expanding mutual aid activity and overseeing the involvement of lived experience volunteers, helping to create a supportive, peer-led recovery environment.
Working closely with the management team and wider multidisciplinary colleagues, you will oversee the day-to-day operational delivery of programmes and recovery activity, ensuring services are safe, effective, and compliant with organisational and prison standards.
Key responsibilities include:
- Coordinating and delivering structured therapeutic group programmes
- Managing referrals, assessments, admissions and programme timetables
- Co-facilitating group and 1:1 interventions aligned with programme models
- Supporting colleagues to deliver high-quality, consistent interventions
- Promoting clear recovery pathways, including mutual aid and peer support
- Leading the development of mutual aid and lived experience initiatives
- Coordinating and supporting lived experience volunteers and peer supporters
- Monitoring programme performance, attendance, outcomes and data reporting
- Building strong partnerships with prison, healthcare and external stakeholders
- Supporting service development through feedback, data and evaluation
About You
You are a passionate and motivated professional with experience in substance misuse services and a strong commitment to supporting recovery in a custodial setting. You bring both practical delivery skills and the ability to coordinate programmes effectively, ensuring high standards and meaningful outcomes for service users.
You will be confident facilitating groups, delivering structured interventions, and using motivational techniques to engage individuals at different stages of change. You are also collaborative, organised, and able to build positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
Essential experience and skills:
- Experience working within substance misuse services
- Experience delivering structured interventions to service users
- Strong group facilitation skills
- Experience using motivational interviewing in 1:1 and group settings
- Commitment to promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Strong IT skills to support programme coordination and reporting
Desirable:
- Experience coordinating group programmes and managing timetables
You will also demonstrate:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- The ability to motivate and support both service users and peers
- Strong organisational and problem-solving abilities