Location: Surrey
Salary: £27,007.5 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Closing Date: 5th September 2025
Are you passionate about supporting individuals to make lasting changes in their lives? Join us as a Regional Health & Wellbeing Practitioner, delivering recovery-focused interventions to adults in custody across Surrey’s prison estate. You’ll work as part of an integrated, multidisciplinary team, playing a key role in supporting people with substance misuse and/or low-level mental health needs on their journey toward recovery and reintegration.
As part of our Health & Wellbeing Framework, you’ll provide tailored psychosocial support to individuals aged 18+ in custody. Working flexibly across multiple prison locations, you’ll assess needs, deliver 1:1 and group interventions, support release planning, and contribute to multi-agency pathways including housing, family services, clinical care, and employment.
You’ll be part of a highly skilled and supportive team, committed to a trauma-informed, gender-responsive, and person-centred approach.
Key Responsibilities
* Conduct risk, initial, and comprehensive assessments to inform individual treatment plans
* Deliver a range of structured 1:1 sessions, group work, and therapeutic programmes
* Facilitate Health & Wellbeing Recovery interventions across multiple prison sites
* Support release planning and through-care pathways into community services
* Collaborate with partner agencies to ensure a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach
* Perform second signatory duties and oral swab testing where required
* Maintain accurate and timely records to support monitoring and evaluation (e.g. NDTMS)
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for a dedicated and skilled professional who brings the following essential experience and qualities:
* Experience in Substance Misuse Services
* Proven background in supporting individuals with drug and/or alcohol issues, ideally within structured service settings.
* Facilitating Structured Interventions and Therapeutic Groups
* Demonstrated experience in delivering evidence-based group work and structured psychosocial interventions tailored to service user needs.
* Practical Counselling Skills
* Ability to apply counselling techniques effectively in 1:1 settings to support service users through their recovery journey.
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.
Benefits
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)
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.
Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
We recognise the importance of safeguarding, 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 the Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application. #J-18808-Ljbffr