Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
Location: HMP Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Salary: A GBP 24,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Closing Date: 15 th September 2025
Join Forward Trust as a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner at HMP Aylesbury and be part of a team that changes lives through substance misuse support and psychological care. This is your opportunity to work directly with individuals in custody, helping them move toward recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration.
Working within an integrated healthcare framework, youll support adult men in prison (18+) with drug and/or alcohol misuse issues. Youll deliver a range of psychosocial interventions, combining harm reduction and abstinence:based approaches, tailored to each individual.
As part of a client:centred service, your key responsibilities will include:
* Managing a caseload and conducting assessments and care planning.
* Delivering structured 1:1 and group sessions, including accredited treatment programmes.
* Providing harm reduction advice and relapse prevention support.
* Supporting throughcare planning in collaboration with partner services such as Probation, Housing, Employment, Healthcare, Gym, and transitional teams to prepare individuals for release and community reintegration.
* Occasionally acting as a second signatory or conducting oral swab testing to complement clinical services.
What Were Looking For
Were seeking someone with a passion for empowering others and a sound understanding of substance misuse interventions in a secure setting.
Essential Experience and Skills:
* Experience delivering psychosocial support and structured interventions.
* Skilled in care planning, assessment, and caseload management.
* Knowledge of harm reduction, abstinence, and motivational techniques.
* Strong team:working abilities and experience of multi:agency working.
* Confident communicator with excellent record:keeping and IT skills.
* Commitment to rehabilitative values and the ethos of Forward Trust.
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 fl