Location: Woking, Surrey
Salary: GBP 24,000 per annum plus benefits
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
We are recruiting for a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner at HMP Send.
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 within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are central to our work.
We believe everyone can live a fulfilling life, regardless of 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
The Forward Trust provides both clinical and psychosocial Substance Misuse Services across Surrey Prisons, in partnership with NHS Trust healthcare providers. Each service operates within a Health and Wellbeing framework, adopting a trauma-informed and gender-responsive approach to deliver a variety of interventions and integrated pathways tailored to the needs of each prison and individual service user. Proactive partnership working and multidisciplinary collaboration across mental health, healthcare services, and the prison are essential.
You will be based on-site, working within a team with a broad skills mix to deliver psychosocial and clinical interventions, providing recovery-oriented Health and Wellbeing Services to service users aged 18 and over at HMP Send.
This involves working directly with detainees who may present with low-level mental health needs and/or substance misuse issues. The service operates 7 days a week; therefore, weekend working will be required on a rota basis.
As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, your day-to-day responsibilities will include managing a caseload, providing harm reduction advice and guidance, conducting assessments, and formulating and delivering care plans in co-production with the service user. You will deliver structured one-to-one sessions, facilitate group work, and perform second signatory duties. You will also be responsible for release planning and ensuring transitional support arrangements for those leaving the prison and returning to the community.
Our success depends on meeting targets and measuring the effectiveness of our work, so accurate and timely data recording is vital.
The Ideal Candidate
Please see the list of skills and experience required below for this role;
Essential
* Experience of working within mental health or substance misuse services
* Strong IT skills
Desirable
* Experience of conducting comprehensive assessments and designing and implementing SMART care plans
* Experience delivering structured interventions
* Experience facilitating group work
* Ability to use motivational interviewing techniques in both one-to-one and group settings
* Experience using CBT and/or motivational counselling skills
* Knowledge of issues faced by those experiencing substance dependency/misuse and/or low-level mental health issues
* Understanding of the Recovery Agenda and national drug strategies, e.g., From Harm to Hope
* Thorough knowledge of the 12-step treatment approach
* Previous experience working in a 12-step programme
* Experience providing support, advice, and guidance within a Health and Wellbeing framework
* Personal experience of addiction or imprisonment (addicts in recovery should have at least 3 years in recovery; prisoners should have been released at least 5 years ago)
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