Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP The Mount (Maternity Cover)
Job Type Fixed Term, Full Time
Location Bovingdon, Hertfordshire
Salary £24,000 - £25,844 per annum
We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with 'Lived Experience’ we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness.
What will you be doing?
The Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Maternity Cover) will deliver client centred treatment depending on the requirements of the individual client. You will be required to manage a caseload, provide appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assess, care plan; deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions for both Substance Misuse and Low Level Mental Health service users. Transitional support from prison to the community via integrated working with other Health and Wellbeing agencies, both within the prison and in the community, is an essential element of the work to prepare service users for release.
1. Carry out assessments risk/initial/comprehensive assessments to inform mental health and substance misuse treatment journeys.
2. Carry out substance misuse and low level mental health interventions relevant to individual client needs, including 1:1 sessions...