Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

Location: Woking,Surrey 

Salary: £24,000 per annum plus benefits

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

We are recruiting for a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner at HMP Send.

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.”

Role Responsibilities

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 broad skills mix to deliver combined psychosocial and clinical interventions providing recovery-orientated Health and Wellbeing Services to service users aged 18 and over at HMP Send.

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.

As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner day-to-day you will be responsible for managing a caseload, providing appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, conducting assessments, and formulating and delivering care plans ensuring co-production with the service user. You will deliver structured 1:1s, facilitate group-work sessions and perform second signatory duties. You will be responsible for release planning and ensuring through-care arrangements for transitional support for those leaving the prison and returning to the community.

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.

The Ideal Candidate

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

Essential

• Experience of working within mental health or substance misuse service
• Strong IT skills

Desirable

• Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments and the design and implementation of SMART care plans
• Experience of delivering structured interventions
• Experience of facilitating group work
• Ability to use motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and group settings
• Experience of using CBT and/or motivational counselling skills
• Knowledge of the issues faced by those experiencing substance dependency/misuse and/or low level mental health issues
• Understanding of the Recovery Agenda and national drug strategy e.g. From Harm to Hope
• A thorough knowledge of 12-step treatment approach
• Previous experience of working in a 12 step programme
• Experience of providing support, advice and guidance services within a Health and Wellbeing framework
• Personal experience of addiction/imprisonment (Addicts in recovery should have at least 3 years in recovery. Ex-prisoners should have been released at least 5 years ago)
• Previous experience of working within a prison setting

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

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/76/health-and-wellbeing-practitioner-hmp-send.html

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