Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

TipTopJob; Sutton Green; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social enterprise is seeking a Health and Well-being Practitioner for HMP Highdown in Surrey. The role involves delivering psychosocial and clinical interventions to support individuals with mental health and substance misuse issues. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, managing a caseload and facilitating recovery-oriented services. The position offers flexible working and a range of benefits, including training opportunities and a contributory pension scheme.

Benefits

Flexible working

Training and development opportunities

Simply Health Cashback Scheme

Season Ticket Loan Scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Crisis Loan Scheme

Electric Car Scheme

3 Wellbeing Days

Access to Blue Light Card

Contributory Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering psychosocial and clinical interventions.
• Ability to manage a caseload and conduct assessments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver recovery-oriented health and wellbeing services.
• Facilitate 1:1 sessions and group work.
• Manage data recording to meet targets.

Skills

Psychosocial Interventions

Clinical Assessments

Harm Reduction

Job description

Health and Well-being Practitioner: HMP Highdown

Location: Surrey

Salary: GBP 25,200 per annum, plus benefits

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

The Forward Trust provides both clinical and psychosocial substance misuse services across Surrey Prisons in partnership with NHS Trust healthcare providers. Each service operates a health and wellbeing framework with a trauma-informed and gender-responsive approach, delivering a variety of interventions and integrated pathways tailored to meet the needs of each prison and individual service users. Partnership working across mental health, healthcare services, and the prison is essential.

We are seeking a Health and Well-being Practitioner to join HMP Highdown. You will work on-site within a multidisciplinary team to deliver psychosocial and clinical interventions, providing recovery-oriented health and wellbeing services to adults aged 18 and over at HMP Highdown, a closed category adult male prison in Sutton.

This role involves working directly with detained individuals who may present low-level mental health needs and/or substance misuse issues. The service operates 7 days a week, so weekend work will be required on a rota basis.

As a day-to-day practitioner, you will manage a caseload, provide harm reduction advice, conduct assessments, and develop and deliver care plans in co-production with service users. You will facilitate 1:1 sessions, group work, perform second signatory duties, and handle release planning and transitional support for those leaving the prison and reintegrating into the community.

Accurate and timely data recording is vital, as our success depends on meeting targets and measuring effectiveness.

About Us

The Forward Trust is a social enterprise with charitable status, dedicated to empowering individuals to break cycles of crime and addiction and move forward. With over 25 years of experience, we support thousands of people in building positive, productive lives, believing in the potential for lasting change.

Benefits

We are committed to our cause and our staff’s wellbeing. Benefits include:

• 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 Wellbeing Days (pro-rated for part-time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with service) plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme: Employer contributions up to 6% in the first two years, up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to criteria)

If you are interested and believe you are suitable, please apply via the following link to the Forward Trust website: Apply here.