Regional Programmes Health & Wellbeing Practitioner in Sutton)

Ad Warrior Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social enterprise seeks a Regional Health & Wellbeing Practitioner to deliver support for prisoners across multiple locations in Surrey. The role involves providing holistic health interventions, collaborating with various agencies, and contributing to the reintegration process, with a focus on reducing substance dependency and promoting wellbeing. Competitive salary and benefits included.

Benefits

Flexible working

Training and development opportunities

Wellbeing Days

Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays

Contributory Pension Scheme

Death in Service Payment

Crisis Loan Scheme

Electric Car Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in substance misuse services.
• Experience in facilitating therapeutic groups.
• Practical counselling skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver tailored health and wellbeing interventions based on individual needs.
• Support the reintegration of prisoners into society.
• Record data accurately and analyze the effectiveness of services.

Skills

Substance Misuse Services

Structured Interventions

Therapeutic Group Facilitation

Counseling Skills

Job description

Regional Programmes Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

Location: Surrey

Salary : £24,000 per annum plus benefits

We are recruiting for a Regional Health & Wellbeing Practitioner in our Surrey Prisons .

Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment. Our support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes.

The Forward Trust services which are delivered within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and are delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are integral to the work we do.

We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past. Our work in prisons aims to support those affected by drug or alcohol issues to create lasting change and reduce dependency, homelessness, unemployment and re-offending."

Roles Responsibilities

You will be working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to prisoners aged 18 and over. The team have a broad skills mix to deliver combined psychosocial and clinical interventions promoting holistic recovery and health and wellbeing to prisoners. This might include working with low-level mental health needs and/or substance misuse issues.

Our core purpose is to break the cycle of crime and you play a key part in bringing it to life. In practice, this means you will deliver tailored interventions based on your clients' individual requirements. That means thinking collaboratively and providing a seamless link into our clinical, family work, housing, employment, and recovery and reintegration services (to name a few), as well as collaborating with other agencies.

The ultimate aim is for our clients to successfully reintegrate back into society with plenty of wellbeing and recovery capital to build on. Day to day you will be delivering Health & Wellbeing interventions and structured programmes for service user cohorts across the region, namely: HMP Highdown, HMP Bronzefield, HMP Downview, HMP Coldingley and HMP Send.

The flexible nature of this role means you will also support locations with additional needs such as carrying out assessments, second checking or other relevant duties to enable the smooth running of the service. 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

Programmes practitioner will be covering 5 Surrey prisons. Based at HMP Highdown but travel between Surrey sites will be needed on a regular basis to deliver programmes within these services.

All prison-based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 3-6 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.

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.

Please be aware our prison based roles are not subject to any form of visa sponsorship. We kindly ask that candidates declare any current visa arrangements at application stage.

The Ideal Candidate

Please see below a list of skills and experience needed for this role.

* Experience of working within substance misuse services

* Experience of delivering structured interventions and facilitating therapeutic groups to service users

* Experience of delivering practical counselling skills

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/233/regional-programmes-health--wellbeing-practitioner.html