Health and Wellbeing Practitioner – Programmes

Location: HMP Send

Salary: £12,000 per annum plus benefits

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Part Time

We are recruiting for a Health and Wellbeing Programmes 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

You will be working as part of the Integrated Substance Misuse Service delivered by Forward Trust at HMP Send a female training prison. The service operates within an integrated health and well-being framework to provide support to those who identify having drug and alcohol issues. The Service is designed to deliver both psychosocial and clinical Interventions, this included the previously accredited RAPt Women’s Substance Dependence Treatment Programme (WSDTP), now formally known as ‘Footsteps in Recovery’. A 12-step intensive abstinence-based treatment programme. 

In the role you will work alongside a team of case management Health and Wellbeing Practitioners supporting the delivery of client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment approaches, depending on need. You will manage a caseload, providing appropriate advice and guidance, conduct assessments, formulate, and deliver care plans involving both structured 1:1s and group-work sessions. Further to this you will work with a multi-agency approach to contribute to effective release planning and effective reintegration into the community alongside internal and external partnership agencies.

As programmes-based Health and Wellbeing Practitioner your role will be dedicated to the delivery of the services treatment programmes including intensive 12-step programme 'Footsteps in Recovery'. Group therapy, assignment review sessions, workshops, step lectures, and individual counselling all form part of an intensive daily treatment schedule.

You will also be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners.

The Ideal Candidate

Below is a list of the qualities that we are looking for in applicants to this post.  Please address each of these points in your application.

You will have well developed verbal skills and interpersonal group work facilitation skills to stimulate groups and clients, relating positively and empathetically.

Essential

• A thorough knowledge of and commitment to the 12-step process of recovery from addiction.
• Experience of providing counselling services to prisoners, or those with drug or alcohol problems 
• Previous experience of working in a 12-step primary care programme.
• Experience of using CBT and motivational counselling skills
• Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
• Possession of a recognised counselling qualification, or about to start or ongoing attendance on a recognised counselling course. 

Desirable

• A Diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent

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

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/235/health-and-wellbeing-practitioner-programmes-hmp-send.html

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