Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Downview

Location: Sutton

Salary: £25,714.29 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

About The Role

Are you passionate about helping people overcome substance misuse and supporting mental wellbeing?

The Forward Trust delivers trauma-informed, gender-responsive Health and Wellbeing services across Surrey prisons in partnership with NHS healthcare providers, and we’re looking for a dedicated Health & Wellbeing Practitioner to join our team at HMP Downview, a closed adult female prison.

What you’ll do:

• Manage a caseload, providing tailored assessments, care plans, and recovery-oriented interventions.
• Deliver structured 1:1 sessions and group-work, supporting clients with substance misuse and low-level mental health needs.
• Provide harm reduction guidance and second signatory duties.
• Support release planning and transitional care for service users returning to the community.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with mental health, healthcare, and prison staff.
• Contribute to KPIs, audits, and the continuous improvement of our Health & Wellbeing services.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in substance misuse, mental health, or related health and social care fields.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively.
• Flexibility to work on a rota including weekends.
• Ability to manage your caseload effectively and maintain accurate records.
• Commitment to trauma-informed, gender-responsive, and recovery-oriented approaches.

Join The Forward Trust and be part of something bigger, helping people turn their lives around, supporting recovery, and making a real difference every single day. Work with a passionate, multidisciplinary team, grow your skills, and see the impact of your work firsthand. If you want a role where your expertise truly changes lives, this is it.

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 our website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/486/health--wellbeing-practitioner--hmp-downview.html

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