Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - Hmp Brixton

3 days ago

London, United Kingdom The Forward Trust Full time

Overview:
We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), 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.

What you will be doing?:
The Health and Wellbeing Practitioner will sit as part of the planned care and unscheduled care team at HMP Brixton and will deliver client centered treatment depending on the requirements of the individual client. You will be required to manage a caseload, provide appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assess, care plan and deliver sructured 1:1 and group-work sessions for both Substance Misuse and Low Level Mental Health servuce users. Transitional support from prison to the community via integrated working with other Health and Wellbeing agencies both within the prison and in the community is an essential element of the work to prepare service users for release.

The Health & Wellbeing Practitioner will be expected to:

- Develop and contribute to the Substance Misuse and general health and wellbeing care needs of service users.
- Supporting service users 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 Trust 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.

What we are looking for?:

- Knowledge of the issues facing substance misusers including low-level mental health issues.
- Demonstratable experience of carrying out risk assessments, comprehensive assessments and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
- Significant experience of carrying out psychosocial interventions including using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and therapeutic group settings.
- A thorough knowledge of and commitment to the 12-step process of recovery from addiction.
- Experience of providing counselling / CBT interventions to prisoners, or those with Health and Wellbeing, or drug and /or alcohol problems

What we offer:

- Training opportunities and career development
- Flexible working
- Season ticket loan scheme
- Cycke 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)
- Please note, the service is currently adapting to a new way of working which will include evening and weekend work. *

Person specification:
Health and Wellbeing PractitionerPlease click on the link below to download the full person specification.

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