Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner in Chelmsford

Psychological Well-being Practitioner

Location: Chelmsford

Salary: £28,407 per annum plus benefits

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Advertising End Date: 07 Aug 2025

We are recruiting for a Psychological Well-being Practitioner

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.

The Forward Trust services which are delivered within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and are delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are integral to the work we do.

We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past. Our work in prisons aims to support those affected by drug or alcohol issues to create lasting change and reduce dependency, homelessness, unemployment, and re-offending.

Role Responsibilities

As a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) a large part of your role will be to assess a service users suitability for evidence based psychological interventions for those presenting with common mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. You will be delivering a wide range of low-level psychological step 2 interventions to adults on an individual face-to-face basis or through facilitating therapeutic groups. The successful candidate will be contributing to team performance and delivery of a responsive, high quality service in line with IAPT requirements. You will actively participate in both Case management and line management supervision, they will also be supporting the service to ensure quality standards are met. In line with Forward Trust mission is to bring lasting change to peoples lives by delivering services that inspire the belief in a better life, and provide clear steps to achieve this change, the successful candidate should be committed to equal opportunities.

All prison-based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 3-6 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.

Checks will require you to provide information on the below:

• Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
• Your family (parents, parents partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
• Co-residents
• Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
• Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
• Credit reference checks
• Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that\’s publicly available on the internet to ensure there\’s nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
• Other government and overseas agency or police checks

The Ideal Candidate

Please see below a list of skills and experience needed for this role.

• Experience of undertaking comprehensive risk assessments, including assessment of risk to self and others.
• Experience of delivering Step 2 Psychological interventions.
• A thorough understanding of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) and the
• concept of stepped care
• Genuine interest in motivating and developing people
• Project and time management skills
• Inter-personal skills and ability to relate to a diverse range of people
• Understanding the need for evidence based psychological interventions.
• Ability to work flexibly in order to meet the needs of the service
• Able to work across sites as required.
• Previous experience working in a prison environment
• Previous experience of working with people with common Mental Health issues such as anxiety and depression

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