Health and Wellbeing Practitioner : Part Time
Location: Hertfordshire
Salary: A GBP 14,400 per annum
Vacancy Type : Permanent, Part Time
We are currently recruiting for a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to work within our integrated service delivered at HMP The Mount.
Within HMP The Mount, Forward Trust deliver an integrated service that includes a Psychosocial Substance Misuse service and a Talking Therapies service, both of which operate under a Heath and Wellbeing model.
The Psychosocial Substance Misuse service that this role sits within, aims to deliver treatment to a range of service users, including those that are at risk of substance use, those that are currently receiving clinical treatment and those that are scheduled for an up:and:coming release to the community.
Our treatment and support is based around provided meaningful advice and guidance, increasing motivation to make a change and working towards Recovery goals and objectives. Treatment delivery can be through one:to:one sessions, group/workshop attendance or via peer:to:peer interactions, many of which we coordinate and support.
Our service also supports HMP The Mounts Incentivised Substance Free Living (ISFL) wing and the wider Drug Strategy of the prison.
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.
Please note this is a part time role of 21 hours per week.
Roles and Responsibilities
The successful candidate will deliver client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence:based treatment approaches depending on the requirements of the individual client. Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to prisoners with substance misuse, low:level mental health and overall health and wellbeing issues. Day to day you will be responsible for managing a caseload, providing appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assessments, and care plans; you will deliver structured 1:1 and group:work sessions on both Substance Misuse and Low Level Mental Health topics and provide transitional support from prison to the community to prepare service users for release.
You will be contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners additionally the role requires you to make case note entries and record information accurately. You may be requested to write progress reports for clients aimed at a specific audience, good quality written work will be expected in this role.
Through care and integration with other services is vital to this role; such as Resettlement, Education and Employment, Gym, Healthcare, Probation, Fellowships and external Drug and Alcohol Support services.
All prison:based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 4:12 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS 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 thats publicly available on the internet to ensure theres 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 flexible, organised, hard working and have an interest in or experience of working in the criminal just