Overview
Health & Wellbeing Practitioner – Sutton
Permanent
£25,714.00
Join The Forward Trust and make a real difference. We deliver integrated clinical and psychosocial substance misuse services across Surrey Prisons, working in close partnership with NHS healthcare providers. Our trauma-informed, gender-responsive approach ensures every service user gets the support they need on their recovery journey.
About the Role:
As a Health & Wellbeing Practitioner, you’ll be part of a multidisciplinary team delivering recovery-orientated services to women aged 18+. Working on-site at HMP Downview, Sutton, your role will involve:
- Managing a caseload with a person-centred approach
- Conducting assessments and co-producing care plans
- Delivering structured 1:1 sessions and facilitating group work
- Providing harm reduction advice and support
- Performing second signatory duties
- Supporting release planning and community reintegration
- Accurately recording data and outcomes to measure success
Requirements:
- Experience or interest in working with individuals affected by substance misuse or low-level mental health needs
- Strong commitment to trauma-informed and gender-responsive practices
- Ability to work collaboratively across prison, healthcare, and mental health teams
- Willingness to work weekends on a rota basis
- Commitment to completing the Drug and Alcohol Workforce Development Programme (DAWFDP) within 12 months
Be part of a service that’s changing lives and supporting positive futures.
Health & Wellbeing Practitioners are now working 37.5 hours as a 12-month
‘New Era’ pilot scheme. This will be reviewed in August 2026.
Please see all details on the job description attached.
About Us
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)
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
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.
