Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
Description✓Health & Wellbeing Practitioner – Part Time, Permanent – Brixton - £12,577.00 per annum
✓Benefits:
✓Training opportunities and career development
✓Flexible working
✓Season ticket loan scheme
✓Cycle to work scheme
✓25 Days annual leave plus Bank Holidays [rising to 30 days with length of service]
✓Excellent contributory pension scheme
✓Employer matched contributions of up 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]
✓Join The Forward Trust [formerly RAPt and Blue Sky], a social enterprise with charitable status dedicated to empowering individuals to break the cycles of crime and addiction
✓With over 25 years of experience, we believe in the potential for lasting change and work tirelessly to support individuals in building positive and productive lives
✓Our services have transformed the lives of thousands, providing them with employment, family, friends, and a sense of community.
✓We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with ‘Lived Experience’ we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness
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✓Role Overview – Health & Wellbeing Practitioner:
✓As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be responsible for delivering client-centred treatment based on individual requirements
✓Managing a caseload, you will provide appropriate harm reduction advice, assess, and create care plans
✓This role involves conducting structured 1:1 and group-work sessions for Substance Misuse and Low-Level Mental Health service users
✓Additionally, you will support transitional services for individuals transitioning from prison to the community, working collaboratively with other Health and Wellbeing agencies to prepare service users for release.
✓Responsibilities – Health & Wellbeing Practitioner:
✓Develop and contribute to the Substance Misuse and general Health and Wellbeing care needs of service users, supporting them in the development of release plans which are appropriate to their needs.
✓Ensure substance misuse and mental health groups, and Health and Wellbeing programmes, are facilitated/co-facilitated to the standard required by the Forward and in accordance with any relevant needs.
✓Carry out substance misuse and low-level mental interventions relevant to individual client needs, including 1:1 sessions and group work/programme facilitation.
✓Requirements – Health & Wellbeing Practitioner:
✓Knowledge of the challenges faced by substance misusers and individuals with low-level mental health issues.
✓Demonstrable experience in conducting risk assessments, comprehensive assessments, and designing/implementing SMART care plans.
✓Significant experience in delivering psychosocial interventions, including the use of motivational interviewing techniques, in both 1:1 and therapeutic group settings.
✓A strong understanding of and commitment to the 12-step process of recovery from addiction.
✓Previous experience in providing counselling/CBT services to prisoners, individuals with Health and Wellbeing concerns, or those dealing with drug and/or alcohol-related issues Show more →
✓Benefits:
✓Training opportunities and career development
✓Flexible working
✓Season ticket loan scheme
✓Cycle to work scheme
✓25 Days annual leave plus Bank Holidays [rising to 30 days with length of service]
✓Excellent contributory pension scheme
✓Employer matched contributions of up 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]
✓Join The Forward Trust [formerly RAPt and Blue Sky], a social enterprise with charitable status dedicated to empowering individuals to break the cycles of crime and addiction
✓With over 25 years of experience, we believe in the potential for lasting change and work tirelessly to support individuals in building positive and productive lives
✓Our services have transformed the lives of thousands, providing them with employment, family, friends, and a sense of community.
✓We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with ‘Lived Experience’ we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness
✓
✓Role Overview – Health & Wellbeing Practitioner:
✓As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will be responsible for delivering client-centred treatment based on individual requirements
✓Managing a caseload, you will provide appropriate harm reduction advice, assess, and create care plans
✓This role involves conducting structured 1:1 and group-work sessions for Substance Misuse and Low-Level Mental Health service users
✓Additionally, you will support transitional services for individuals transitioning from prison to the community, working collaboratively with other Health and Wellbeing agencies to prepare service users for release.
✓Responsibilities – Health & Wellbeing Practitioner:
✓Develop and contribute to the Substance Misuse and general Health and Wellbeing care needs of service users, supporting them in the development of release plans which are appropriate to their needs.
✓Ensure substance misuse and mental health groups, and Health and Wellbeing programmes, are facilitated/co-facilitated to the standard required by the Forward and in accordance with any relevant needs.
✓Carry out substance misuse and low-level mental interventions relevant to individual client needs, including 1:1 sessions and group work/programme facilitation.
✓Requirements – Health & Wellbeing Practitioner:
✓Knowledge of the challenges faced by substance misusers and individuals with low-level mental health issues.
✓Demonstrable experience in conducting risk assessments, comprehensive assessments, and designing/implementing SMART care plans.
✓Significant experience in delivering psychosocial interventions, including the use of motivational interviewing techniques, in both 1:1 and therapeutic group settings.
✓A strong understanding of and commitment to the 12-step process of recovery from addiction.
✓Previous experience in providing counselling/CBT services to prisoners, individuals with Health and Wellbeing concerns, or those dealing with drug and/or alcohol-related issues Show more →