Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP The Mount
Location: Hertfordshire
Salary: £24,000 - £25,844 DOE
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Closing date: 10 May 2026
About The Role
Looking for a role where you can genuinely change lives?
We're looking for a passionate Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our team at HMP The Mount, supporting individuals on their journey towards recovery, better mental health, and a positive future beyond custody.
This is a full-time position (35 hours per week) offering a starting salary of £24,000. A salary of up to £25,844 may be offered to candidates who can demonstrate relevant experience.
In this rewarding and varied role, you ll deliver person-centred support using both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches. Working as part of an integrated healthcare team, you ll support individuals experiencing substance misuse issues, low-level mental health needs, and wider health and wellbeing challenges, helping them build resilience and prepare for release back into the community.
What you ll be doing
You ll play a key role in delivering high quality interventions and support, including:
What we re looking for
We re looking for someone who is compassionate, organised and motivated, with the ability to build professional relationships while maintaining clear boundaries. You should be comfortable managing a varied caseload and working within a multi-disciplinary environment.
You ll also bring:
This is an opportunity to do work that truly matters, supporting people to reduce harm, improve their wellbeing and take positive steps towards a healthier future.
If you want a role where you can make a real difference every day, we d love to hear from you.
Please see attached Job Description for full details
All prison-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 5 months to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks.
Please note if you have lived overseas within the last 5 years then checks may take longer.
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 -
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
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.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.
