Trainee Health & Well-being Practitioner in Sutton)

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Job summary

A leading health service provider is looking for a Trainee Health & Well-being Practitioner at HMP Highdown in Sutton. This role involves shadowing experienced team members and providing support for individuals with mental health and substance misuse issues in a prison setting. The position offers substantial training and development opportunities, flexible working options, and a range of employee benefits, including annual leave and pension contributions. The successful candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver essential health services.

Benefits

Flexible working

Training and development opportunities

Contributory Pension Scheme

25 days Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays

Critical Illness Insurance

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills and be ready to work as part of a team.
• Ability to engage with individuals who may present low-level mental health and substance misuse issues.

Responsibilities

• Shadow team members and gain practical experience in health and well-being interventions.
• Work directly with detained service users in a supportive manner.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Relevant qualification or training

Job description

Trainee Health & Well-being Practitioner - HMP Highdown

Location: Surrey

Salary: £25,207 per annum

About The Role

Here at HMP Highdown, an internal opportunity has arisen for a Trainee Health & Well‑being Practitioner to join the Team.

As part of the traineeship, you will be shadowing a member of the team and will be given guidance and support working through the various aspects of the role in the business unit you have been assigned to. The team member you will be shadowing will help ensure you are receiving the training and development needed to become competent in the role. You will receive regular reviews to ensure that you stay on track to successfully complete the traineeship and undertake the compulsory external supervision as part of the traineeship. Part of your time on the traineeship will be spent working, gaining the practical experience and part studying towards achieving the qualification that has been assigned (subject to criteria).

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.

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 Well‑being Services to service users aged 18 and over at: HMP Highdown a male category C 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.

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.

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 Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/129/trainee-health--well-being-practitioner--hmp-highdown.html