Wellbeing Practitioner

Catch22; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Catch22 is recruiting a Wellbeing Practitioner to join our Personal Wellbeing service, covering the Thames Valley area, to support adult male ex-offenders with emotional wellbeing guidance and skills training.

The role requires DBS and HMPPS vetting checks and full Right to Work in the UK; you will work with delivery partners and multi-agency colleagues to achieve outputs while maintaining safeguarding and compliance.

Qualifications

• Successful DBS check and HMPPS vetting as part of pre-employment process.
• Confirmed Right to Work in the UK is required for employment.
• Experience collaborating with delivery partners, multi-agency colleagues or criminal-justice services.

Skills

DBS checks

Right to work

Partnership working

MS Office

Education

GCSE Maths & English

Tools

Microsoft Office (Word & Excel)

Job description

This post presents an exciting opportunity to become a Wellbeing Practitioner at our Personal Wellbeing service, covering the Thames Valley area. Commissioned by HMPPS, these services are focused on supporting adult male ex-offenders across the following pathways:

• Family and Significant Others
• Lifestyle and Associates
• Emotional Wellbeing Services
• Social Inclusion, Supporting service users to develop strategies to manage emotions, and designing and delivering skills training, to foster self-confidence, by knowing how to access appropriate support.
• Supporting service users to increase capacity to undertake activities to support daily living, and advocating for service users in conjunction with multi-agency partners, to engage with treatment and other professionals/services (MH teams/support groups).
• Supporting our team in achieving our Justice Business Plan objectives: innovate, revitalise, and reform the delivery of Justice Services.

This role will involve working in close partnership with delivery partners, HMPPS, the Voluntary Sector, and other Criminal Justice organisations, to promote and deliver our services, and achieve the required outputs and outcomes. When applying please be cautious over the answers you provide. If you select "NO" to the screening question regarding Right to Work in the UK, your application will automatically be closed.

Screening: Successful admission to post subject to enhanced DBS check, HMPPS vetting check, and employer Right To Work in the UK check. The post-holder must have right to work in the UK. Catch22 does not currently provide a licence to sponsor visas but please see this to see those that do. Proactive Recruitment Strategy: We are proactively recruiting to build a pool of pre‑cleared candidates for future vacancies, for some of our opportunities. While we may not be able to offer an immediate role, successful applicants will undergo all relevant pre‑employment checks, enabling them to join our workforce promptly when a position becomes available. This approach is based on expected leavers over the coming 3 month period and ensures a smooth transition into the team as opportunities arise.

Use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) should not be used to exaggerate skills & experiences, create generic responses that are not unique to the individual, and for any assessments used by the Hiring Team to measure an individual's natural abilities.

Catch22's Commitment to Opportunity & Progression

At Catch22 we are proud of our commitment in supporting people develop in their careers and progress in our organisation. In 2024, within our Justice Hub, we have 68% of those in management roles that originally joined Catch22 in the frontline workforce and some worked across a number of roles and Leadership positions before joining management. This allows us to have a highly experienced management group and provides development opportunities for those in our much valued front‑line.

Catch22's Commitment to Ban the Box

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Social Media Search

Please note, we may conduct an online search as part of our due diligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media.

Vetting Requirements

This role is subject to the satisfactory completion of relevant pre‑employment checks, which may include HMPPS vetting, NPPV, or other role‑specific security clearances. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful outcome of these checks. Where clearance is not granted, or is subsequently withdrawn, Catch22 reserves the right to withdraw the offer of employment.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

• Driving Licence, and access to a vehicle.
• Good basic education, including Maths and English GCSE, or equivalent.
• Evidence of continual professional development.
• Experience working with Microsoft Office – Word and Excel.

Desirable

• Any qualification relevant to rehabilitation of offenders, for example criminology/ criminal justice/ social care/ mental health/ IAG/ Family Services/ Emotional Wellbeing/ Social Inclusion.

Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We achieve this in two ways. First, we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda. In Justice, we work with young people and adults in custody and in the community, providing a range of services including offender management and resettlement, mentoring, veterans in custody, victim services, gangs work and youth justice. We believe that with effective support mechanisms and the correct interventions, we can change service user's ideology, helping them desist from crime and reach their true potential.

We aim to review applications as quickly as possible. However, due to the volume of interest we receive, we may not be able to contact all applicants individually. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful this time.