Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
Location: Buckinghamshire
Salary: A GBP 24,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Closing Date: 20 th November 2025
Are you passionate about helping people make positive changes in their lives? Join Forward as a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, supporting adults aged 18+ with drug and alcohol issues within an integrated healthcare framework.
Youll work within our Health and Wellbeing Services, delivering psychosocial interventions and accredited treatment programmes for individuals in prison identified as having substance misuse problems. Every day will be different, but the goal is the same, empowering clients to build healthier, more stable futures.
What youll do:
* Manage a caseload of clients, providing assessments, care plans and ongoing support.
* Deliver 1:1 and group sessions, using both harm reduction and abstinence:based approaches.
* Facilitate structured treatment programmes tailored to individual needs.
* Provide harm reduction advice, education, and motivational support.
* Work collaboratively with other services, including Housing, Employment, Gym, Healthcare, Probation, and external Drug Intervention Teams, to support throughcare and resettlement.
* Complete second signatory and oral swab testing to complement clinical provision.
* Contribute to local and Forward targets, focusing on measurable outcomes and service excellence.
What were looking for:
* Experience supporting individuals with substance misuse or related needs.
* Strong communication and teamwork skills.
* Ability to balance compassion with professionalism and accountability.
* Flexibility to work some evenings/weekends and travel across projects within your cluster when required.
Youll be part of a dedicated team committed to transforming lives and reducing reoffending. We offer a supportive environment, ongoing training, and opportunities to grow your career within a respected national organisation.
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 ratad 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 adjus