We are currently recruiting for a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to work within a team at HMP Brixton.

Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment.

Our support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes.

Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over (dependent on service).

The Health and Wellbeing Services are designed to deliver Psychosocial Substance Misuse, Interventions and Accredited Treatment Programmes for offenders coming into prison that are identified as having an Alcohol or drug problem.

The Health and Wellbeing Services will deliver client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment approaches 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; deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions including structured treatment programmes if relevant to the unit you are working in.

Through care and integration with other services such as Transitional, Housing, Employment, Gym, Healthcare, Probation and external Drugs Intervention Teams are an essential element of the work to prepare for release.

You will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role.

In order to compliment clinical provision you may be required to complete second signatory and oral swab testing.

Flexibility will be required in this role, this may include some evening/weekend shift and with reasonable notice to travel to other projects in your cluster to deliver health and wellbeing services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.