Health and Wellbeing Practitioner in Sutton)

Ad Warrior Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social enterprise is seeking a Health & Well-being Practitioner for HMP Highdown. You will deliver psychosocial and clinical interventions to support individuals with mental health and substance misuse issues. The role requires managing a caseload, conducting assessments, and ensuring effective care plans. Flexible working and various benefits are offered, 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

Wellbeing Days

Access to Blue Light Card

Contributory Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Responsible for managing a caseload and conducting assessments.
• Deliver structured 1:1s and facilitate group-work sessions.
• Ensure co-production with service users.

Responsibilities

• Provide recovery-oriented Health and Wellbeing Services.
• Work with detained individuals with mental health and substance misuse issues.
• Accurate recording of data is vital for measuring effectiveness.

Skills

Health and Wellbeing

Mental Health

Substance Misuse

Job description

Health & Well-being Practitioner - HMP Highdown

Location: Surrey

Salary: £25,200 per annum, plus benefits

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

The Forward Trust provide 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 taking a trauma informed and gender responsive approach to delivery of a wide variety of interventions and integrated pathways tailored to meet specific needs of each prison and individual service users. With pro-active partnership working a key aspect in the delivery of these services multi-disciplinary working across mental health, healthcare services and the prison is essential.

We are looking for a Health & Well-being Practitioner to join HMP Highdown. You will be based on site working within a team that have a broad skills mix to deliver combined psychosocial and clinical interventions providing recovery-orientated Health and Wellbeing Services to service users aged 18 and over at: HMP Highdown a closed category adult male prison located in Sutton.

This will involve working directly with those who are detained in the prison who may present low-level mental health needs and/or substance misuse issues. The service operates 7 days a week therefore weekend working will be a requirement on a rota basis.

As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner day-to-day you will be responsible for managing a caseload, providing appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, conducting assessments and formulating and delivering care plans ensuring co-production with the service user. You will deliver structured 1:1s, facilitate group-work sessions and perform second signatory duties. You will be responsible for release planning and ensuring through-care arrangements for transitional support for those leaving the prison and returning to the community.

Our success is based around targets and measuring the effectiveness of our work, so accurate and timely recording of data will be a vital part of your role.

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 proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/130/health--well-being-practitioner--hmp-highdown.html