Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP The Mount

Location: Hertfordshire

Salary: £24,000 - £25,844 DOE

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Closing date: 10 May 2026

About The Role

Looking for a role where you can genuinely change lives?

We're looking for a passionate Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our team at HMP The Mount, supporting individuals on their journey towards recovery, better mental health, and a positive future beyond custody.

This is a full-time position (35 hours per week) offering a starting salary of £24,000. A salary of up to £25,844 may be offered to candidates who can demonstrate relevant experience.

In this rewarding and varied role, you’ll deliver person-centred support using both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches. Working as part of an integrated healthcare team, you’ll support individuals experiencing substance misuse issues, low-level mental health needs, and wider health and wellbeing challenges, helping them build resilience and prepare for release back into the community.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll play a key role in delivering high quality interventions and support, including:

• Managing a caseload and delivering personalised support and care plans
• Completing assessments, risk reviews and structured interventions
• Delivering 1:1 sessions and group programmes on substance misuse and low-level mental health topics
• Providing harm reduction advice and health and wellbeing guidance
• Supporting service users with release planning and continuity of care into the community
• Working collaboratively with healthcare, probation, housing, employment and external recovery services
• Maintaining accurate case records, reports and outcome data
• Contributing to service performance targets and quality standards

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who is compassionate, organised and motivated, with the ability to build professional relationships while maintaining clear boundaries. You should be comfortable managing a varied caseload and working within a multi-disciplinary environment.

You’ll also bring:

• Experience (or a strong interest) in substance misuse, mental health or wellbeing services
• Strong communication and report writing skills
• Good organisational skills and attention to detail
• Confidence using IT and case management systems
• A proactive and solution-focused approach
• Understanding of safeguarding, professional boundaries and confidentiality

This is an opportunity to do work that truly matters, supporting people to reduce harm, improve their wellbeing and take positive steps towards a healthier future.

If you want a role where you can make a real difference every day, we’d love to hear from you.

Please see attached Job Description for full details

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
• 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.

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.

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/603/health--wellbeing-practitioner--hmp-the-mount.html

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