Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Downview

Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Downview

Location: Sutton

Salary:  £27,857.14 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

About The Role

Looking for a role where you can make a genuine difference every day?

Join The Forward Trust as a Health & Wellbeing Practitioner based at HMP Downview in Sutton, working full-time (37.5 hours per week).

As part of our integrated Health & Wellbeing team, you'll support women in custody to overcome substance misuse and low-level mental health challenges through trauma-informed, gender-responsive care, helping them build healthier futures both in prison and as they prepare for release.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing a varied caseload and delivering personalised recovery plans.
• Carrying out assessments and risk assessments to support treatment journeys.
• Providing structured 1:1 interventions and facilitating group sessions.
• Offering harm reduction advice and practical wellbeing support.
• Supporting release planning and through-the-gate continuity of care.
• Working closely with healthcare, mental health and prison colleagues.
• Maintaining accurate case records and contributing to service performance targets.
• Undertaking second signatory duties and supporting clinical colleagues where required.

What we're looking for:

• Passion for supporting people to achieve positive change.
• Experience working within substance misuse, mental health, criminal justice or health and social care settings.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to manage a busy caseload and prioritise effectively.
• A collaborative, solution-focused approach with excellent record-keeping skills.

The Forward Trust delivers integrated clinical and psychosocial substance misuse services across Surrey prisons in partnership with NHS healthcare providers. Our teams work within a trauma-informed, recovery-focused framework, delivering compassionate, person-centred support tailored to each individual's needs.

If you're passionate about supporting people to make lasting positive 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
• Training and development opportunities
• BHSF 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)

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

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.

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