Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - Campsfield IRC
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Location:
on site
Salary:
£20,571 - £24,554 per annum depending on experience
Vacancy Type:
Permanent
Closing Date:
22 Oct 2025
About The Role
Are you passionate about supporting people to make positive life changes? Do you want to work in a rewarding, multi-disciplinary environment that makes a real impact? We are currently recruiting for a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our dedicated team at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre.
As part of our integrated healthcare model, Forward Trust provides Psychosocial Substance Misuse Recovery Services on-site at Campsfield IRC. This is a unique opportunity to support individuals within the immigration system who are experiencing substance misuse, low-level mental health challenges, and wider wellbeing concerns.
About the Role
As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will play a crucial role in delivering tailored, person-centred support to detainees. Working collaboratively within a multi-agency framework, your key responsibilities will include:
Conducting assessments of need, risk, and developing recovery plans
Managing a caseload and delivering both 1:1 and group interventions
Supporting discharge and release planning for continuity of care
Promoting and signposting to relevant internal and external services
Contributing to daily referral meetings and multidisciplinary reviews
Maintaining accurate, confidential records in line with GDPR requirements
Preparing reports and engagement summaries for official use
Providing transitional support for service users pre-release or deportation
Actively engaging in service improvement and professional development
What Were Looking For
Were looking for someone with experience in substance misuse, mental health, or holistic wellbeing support. Youll need to be a compassionate, proactive individual with excellent communication and partnership-working skills.
Experience working in a secure or high-intensity setting is advantageous, but not essential
we value your ability to build trust and support service users through challenging transitions.
Working in Partnership
You will work alongside professionals from various disciplines including Healthcare, Probation, Housing, Education, and Community Support Services. Collaborative working is essential to delivering seamless care within the centre and beyond.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate strong cultural awareness and sensitivity, with the ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds. Experience supporting people for whom English is not their first language is desirable
Please also see the job description attached for more information about this role.
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 rata'd 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)
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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