Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Downview
Location: Sutton
Salary: £27,857.14 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
About The Role
Looking for a role where you can make a genuine difference every day?
Join The Forward Trust as a Health & Wellbeing Practitioner based at HMP Downview in Sutton, working full-time (37.5 hours per week).
As part of our integrated Health & Wellbeing team, you'll support women in custody to overcome substance misuse and low-level mental health challenges through trauma-informed, gender-responsive care, helping them build healthier futures both in prison and as they prepare for release.
What you'll be doing:
What we're looking for:
The Forward Trust delivers integrated clinical and psychosocial substance misuse services across Surrey prisons in partnership with NHS healthcare providers. Our teams work within a trauma-informed, recovery-focused framework, delivering compassionate, person-centred support tailored to each individual's needs.
If you're passionate about supporting people to make lasting positive change, we'd love to hear from you.
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.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your application.
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