Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Highdown

Location: Surrey

Salary: £28,918.50 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

Are you passionate about supporting people to make positive changes and improve their health and wellbeing?

The Forward Trust is looking for a Health & Wellbeing Practitioner to join our team at HMP Highdown, working full-time, 37.5 hours per week.

You’ll play a key role in delivering recovery-focused support to people in prison, working as part of a skilled, multi-disciplinary team to provide psychosocial and clinical interventions using a trauma-informed and gender-responsive approach.

What you’ll be doing

• Manage a caseload, prioritising individuals according to their needs and release dates.
• Complete assessments, risk assessments and care plans, working collaboratively with service users.
• Deliver structured 1:1 sessions and group work focused on health, wellbeing, recovery and harm reduction.
• Support release planning and through-care, helping individuals transition back into the community.
• Work closely with healthcare, mental health, prison and external partner services.
• Carry out second signatory duties and oral swab testing where required.
• Maintain accurate records and ensure data is captured in line with service requirements.
• Contribute to a positive, safe and solution-focused service, continually looking for ways to improve outcomes.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Compassionate and non-judgemental, with a genuine commitment to supporting people to make positive changes.
• Experienced in working with people experiencing substance misuse and/or mental health needs.
• Confident carrying out assessments, care planning and structured interventions.
• Comfortable managing a caseload and working towards targets and deadlines.
• Able to facilitate 1:1 and group sessions effectively.
• A strong communicator who can build positive relationships with service users and partner agencies.
• Able to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Organised and confident using IT systems to maintain accurate records and case management documentation.
• Committed to safeguarding, confidentiality, health and safety, and professional standards.
• Willing to undertake the DAWFDP and commit to ongoing professional development.

If you’re compassionate, motivated and committed to helping people make lasting change, we’d love to hear from you.

All prison-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 5 months to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks.

Please note if you have lived overseas within the last 5 years then checks may take longer.

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

Support for Families – We support our employees through every stage of family life by offering enhanced maternity and paternity pay for eligible employees who have completed 26 weeks' continuous service, alongside family-friendly policies and a supportive, inclusive workplace.

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 click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.