Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - Heathrow IRC
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Location: London
Salary: £25,207 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 11 Dec 2025
About The Role
We are recruiting for a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner at Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre
Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment. Our support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes.
The Forward Trust services which are delivered within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and are delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are integral to the work we do.
We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past. Our work in prisons aims to support those affected by drug or alcohol issues to create lasting change and reduce dependency, homelessness, unemployment and re-offending.
Role Responsibilities
Working within an integrated healthcare framework the Forward Trust provide the Substance Misuse Recovery Services at Heathrow IRC. The role is based on site at Heathrow Immigration Removal Centre. As Health and Wellbeing Practitioner you will work as part of a team in supporting detainees holistically in relation to substance misuse, low-level mental health and overall health and wellbeing issues. Day to day you will be responsible for:
Attending daily referral meetings & team huddles as required
Attendance and contribution to multi-disciplinary reviews
Complete assessments of need, risk management and recovery planning
Caseload management and delivery of both group and 1:1 interventions
Promotion and signposting of services
Discharge and release planning to provide effective continuity of care
Record keeping and case note entry in line with data protection and GDPR requirements
Contribution to overall service improvement and organisational objectives
Undertake relevant training and development
Provide transitional support from the detention centre to the community to prepare service users for release or deportation.
Report writing and engagement summaries for official purposes Partnership and multi-disciplinary working is vital to this role and you will be required work collaboratively with other services such as Housing, Employment, Gym, Healthcare, Probation, specialist agencies and organisations both inside the detention centre and in the community.
You will be offered a thorough induction at an organisational and service level. Training provided included eLearning live workshops also coaching and mentoring from experienced staff. You will be provided with training from the IRC to support you feeling safe and confident in the expectations of you being a key holder.
All IRC-based roles will require enhanced DBS and Counter Terrorism Clerence (CTC) security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 8-12 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both CTC vetting and DBS clearances.
Checks will require you to provide information on the below:
Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
Your family (parents, parents partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
Co-residents
Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
Credit reference checks
Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that's publicly available on the internet to ensure there's nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
Other government and overseas agency or police checks.
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for individuals who are passionate about supporting people that aligns with our organisational values.
Please also see skills and experience needed below for this role;
Experience of working within mental health or substance misuse service
Strong IT skills
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.
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.
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