Overview

Health and Wellbeing Champion Coordinator – Cheshire

Permanent

Competitve

**Please be advised this role is located within Market Drayton, Shropshire**

We are looking for a motivated and skilled Health and Wellbeing Coordinator to join our team at HMP Stoke Heath. Our services deliver psychosocial interventions, drug and alcohol treatment programmes, and work in partnership with healthcare providers as part of the Stoke Heath Integrated Care (SHIC) service.

This role is vital in strengthening the links between SHIC, partner agencies, and service users within the prison. As a Health and Wellbeing Coordinator, you will support Service Managers and the prison to champion SHIC, while training and supervising service users who become Health and Wellbeing Champions (HAWCs). These HAWCs will deliver peer-led interventions and provide support across all prison wings.

You will contribute to the achievement of local and national targets, provide training and guidance to HAWCs and staff, and play a key role in measuring outcomes and service quality. Collaborative working with partner agencies and stakeholders will be central to your success.

Key Responsibilities

  • Train, supervise, and support Health and Wellbeing Champions (HAWCs).

  • Deliver structured psychosocial interventions, both individually and in groups.  

  • Promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion across all aspects of service delivery.

  • Maintain accurate case management records and monitor outcomes.

  • Work closely with internal teams, healthcare partners, and commissioners to ensure effective service delivery.

Essential Skills and Experience

  • Experience of working within substance misuse services.

  • Ability to carry out assessments and create SMART care plans.

  • Experience delivering structured interventions and facilitating groups.

  • Skilled in motivational interviewing in both 1:1 and group settings.

  • Strong knowledge of safeguarding.

  • Experience promoting Equality and Diversity.

  • Proficiency in IT systems for case management.

  • Experience providing training and supervision to peer supporters.

Qualifications

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

  • A recognised counselling qualification, or currently undertaking a recognised counselling course.

Desirable Skills and Experience

  • Experience providing supervision, appraisals, and constructive feedback.

  • Experience working in the community and/or criminal justice sector.

  • Knowledge of community support services.

  • Experience providing counselling to individuals with drug or alcohol problems.

  • Personal lived experience of addiction recovery (3+ years clean) or prison (5+ years post-release).

  • Experience of using clinical supervision effectively.

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)
    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 flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

    To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.  


    Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

    We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

    If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.

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