Location: Surrey
Salary: GBP 27,007.50 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Closing Date: 5th September 2025
Are you passionate about supporting individuals to make lasting changes in their lives? Join us as a Regional Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, delivering recovery-focused interventions to adults in custody across Surrey's prison estate. You will work as part of an integrated, multidisciplinary team, playing a key role in supporting people with substance misuse and/or low-level mental health needs on their journey toward recovery and reintegration.
As part of our Health and Wellbeing Framework, you will provide tailored psychosocial support to individuals aged 18+ in custody. Working flexibly across multiple prison locations, you will assess needs, deliver 1:1 and group interventions, support release planning, and contribute to multi-agency pathways including housing, family services, clinical care, and employment.
You will be part of a highly skilled and supportive team, committed to a trauma-informed, gender-responsive, and person-centred approach.
Key Responsibilities
* Conduct risk, initial, and comprehensive assessments to inform individual treatment plans
* Deliver a range of structured 1:1 sessions, group work, and therapeutic programmes
* Facilitate Health and Wellbeing Recovery interventions across multiple prison sites
* Support release planning and through-care pathways into community services
* Collaborate with partner agencies to ensure a holistic, multidisciplinary approach
* Perform second signatory duties and oral swab testing where required
* Maintain accurate and timely records to support monitoring and evaluation (e.g., NDTMS)
What We're Looking For
We're seeking a dedicated and skilled professional with the following experience and qualities:
* Experience in Substance Misuse Services
* Proven background in supporting individuals with drug and/or alcohol issues, ideally within structured service settings
* Facilitating structured interventions and therapeutic groups
* Experience in delivering evidence-based group work and structured psychosocial interventions tailored to service user needs
* Practical counselling skills
* Ability to effectively use counselling techniques in 1:1 settings to support service users through their recovery journey
About Us
We are The Forward Trust, a social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For over 25 years, we have been working to support individuals in building positive, productive lives, regardless of their past. We believe in lasting change, and our services have helped thousands to find employment, reconnect with family and friends, and develop a sense of community.
Benefits
We are committed to supporting our employees' wellbeing and development. Joining us, you will enjoy benefits such as:
* 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
* Wellbeing Days (pro-rated for part-time employees)
* Access to Blue Light Card
* 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 with length of service) plus Bank Holidays
* Contributory Pension Scheme (employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years, up to 9% thereafter)
* Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
* Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
We are dedicated to promoting diversity and providing opportunities for everyone, valuing a range of lived and professional experiences.
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