Health and wellbeing practitioner Programmes-HMP Send

Location: Surrey

Salary: £12,857.14 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Part Time

Closing Date: 30 Oct 2025

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our Integrated Substance Misuse Service at HMP Send, a female training prison. Our service works within an integrated health and wellbeing framework to support women who identify as having drug and alcohol issues.

The service delivers both psychosocial and clinical interventions, including ‘Footsteps in Recovery’, the rebranded RAPt Women’s Substance Dependence Treatment Programme (WSDTP) – a structured 12-step intensive abstinence-based programme.

In this role, you will manage a caseload and support clients through their treatment journey, delivering care through structured 1:1 sessions, group work, and tailored care plans. You will use a client-centred approach, balancing harm reduction and abstinence-based interventions depending on need. Working closely with partner agencies, you will also contribute to release planning and support reintegration into the community.

As a programmes-based practitioner, your focus will be the delivery of structured treatment programmes, including ‘Footsteps in Recovery’. This involves facilitating group therapy, running workshops and lectures, reviewing assignments, and delivering individual counselling – all as part of an intensive daily treatment schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver the 12-step ‘Footsteps in Recovery’ programme and other structured interventions.
• Provide individual counselling, group therapy, workshops, and step lectures.
• Manage a caseload, conduct assessments, and design SMART care plans.
• Apply CBT and motivational counselling techniques.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners to support effective release planning.
• Contribute to targets set by Forward Trust and local commissioners.
• Facilitate groups with empathy, positivity, and strong interpersonal skills.

Essential Skills and Experience

• In-depth knowledge of and commitment to the 12-step recovery process.
• Previous experience working in a 12-step primary care programme.
• Experience providing counselling services to prisoners or those with drug and alcohol issues.
• Skilled in CBT and motivational counselling techniques.
• Experience conducting comprehensive assessments and creating SMART care plans.
• Recognised counselling qualification, or currently undertaking a recognised counselling course.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Diploma in Health & Social Care (or equivalent).

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.