Health and Wellbeing Practitioner : HMP Bronzefield
Location: Surrey
Salary: A GBP 24,000.00 per annum plus benefits
Vacancy Type : Permanent
We are recruiting for a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner at HMP Bronzefield.
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
You will be based on site working within a team that have a broad skills mix to deliver combined psychosocial and clinical interventions providing recovery:orientated Health and Wellbeing Services to service users aged 18 and over at: HMP/YOI Bronzefield located on Woodthorpe Road, Ashford TW15 3JZ. HMP and YOI Bronzefield is a dynamic and forward:thinking womens prison which accommodates a diverse and complex population of women from courts across the South of England
This will involve working directly with those who are detained in the prison who may present low:level mental health needs and/or substance misuse issues. The service operates 7 days a week therefore weekend working will be a requirement on a rota basis.
As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner day:to:day you will be responsible for managing a caseload, providing appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, conducting assessments and formulating and delivering care plans ensuring co:production with the service user. You will deliver structured 1:1s, facilitate group:work sessions and perform second signatory duties. You will be responsible for release planning and ensuring through:care arrangements for transitional support for those leaving the prison and returning to 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 Prison to support you feeling safe and confident in the expectations of you being a key holder.
All prison:based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 8:12 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 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 peo