Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Brixton

Location: Brixton

Salary:  £27,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

About The Role

Are you passionate about recovery, resilience, and making a real impact?

Join our Substance Misuse Service at HMP Brixton, delivering life-changing psychosocial interventions within an integrated healthcare model known as New Models of Care (NMOC).

Based on site in a men’s Category C resettlement prison, you’ll work as part of a skilled, multidisciplinary team supporting adults experiencing drug and/or alcohol misuse, helping them stabilise, recover, and prepare for release.

About the role

As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you’ll deliver recovery-orientated, trauma-informed interventions across the prison, including Early Days in Custody (EDiC), planned and unscheduled care, and release and resettlement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing a caseload of service users
• Completing assessments and care plans
• Delivering structured 1:1 and group interventions
• Providing harm reduction advice and guidance
• Contributing to accredited treatment programmes (where relevant)
• Working closely with healthcare, probation, housing, employment, gym and external drug services to support through-care and resettlement
• Supporting service targets set by Forward and local commissioners

What you’ll need

• A commitment to recovery-focused, trauma-informed practice
• Confidence working with individuals presenting substance misuse and low-level mental health needs
• Willingness to complete the Drug and Alcohol Workforce Development Programme, a mandatory 12-month professional development programme aligned with the OHID capability framework

If you’re motivated, compassionate, and ready to make a difference in a challenging but rewarding environment, we’d love to hear from you.

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 Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.