Health and Wellbeing Practitioner – HMP Send

Location: Surrey

Salary: £25,714.29

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Advertising End Date: 13^th March 2026

About The Role

Join The Forward Trust and make a real difference!

We are looking for a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join The Forward Trust at HMP Send, Surrey, working full-time, 37.5 hours per week.

In this role, you’ll deliver clinical and psychosocial substance misuse services within a trauma-informed, recovery-focused framework, supporting female service users with substance misuse and low-level mental health needs. You’ll help them build healthier futures both inside the prison and as they transition back into the community.

What you’ll be doing:

• Manage your own caseload, delivering 1:1 and group interventions tailored to individual needs
• Conduct assessments, co-produce care plans, and provide harm reduction advice
• Facilitate release planning and through-care support for service users returning to the community
• Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams across mental health, healthcare, and the prison
• Ensure accurate, timely recording of outcomes and data to track the impact of your work

About you:

• Compassionate, proactive, and solution-focused
• Comfortable working within a multi-disciplinary, high-security environment
• Ready to work weekends on a rota basis
• Committed to completing the Drug and Alcohol Workforce Development Programme

At The Forward Trust, you’ll be part of a skilled, diverse team making a tangible impact on people’s lives. You’ll have access to professional development opportunities, including the DAWFDP, and a supportive environment that encourages collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.

This role is more than a job, it’s a chance to change lives, support recovery, and contribute to safer communities.

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.

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)

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

Diversity at Forward Trust

The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know. 

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

Dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.

Our Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk. Forward Trust follow safer recruitment practices and support a culture of openness and accountability.

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/537/health-and-wellbeing-practitioner--hmp-send.html

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