Senior Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - HMPs Usk and Prescoed - Usk

Senior Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - HMPs Usk and Prescoed - Usk

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• Are you passionate about helping people make lasting change?

  Were looking for a Senior Health & Wellbeing Practitioner to join our Integrated Substance Misuse Team at HMP Usk & HMP Prescoed, working full time (37.5 hours per week). This is a rewarding leadership role supporting adult males within a prison setting, combining frontline clinical work with team management and service development.

  Youll play a key role in supporting individuals with substance misuse and low-level mental health or emotional wellbeing needs, helping them progress through structured recovery journeys and achieve positive outcomes.

  What youll be doing

  • Line managing Health & Wellbeing Practitioners and supporting their development
  • Managing a varied caseload and delivering 1:1 interventions and group work
  • Carrying out assessments, care planning and appropriate referrals
  • Working closely with healthcare teams and multi-agency partners
  • Supporting service performance, outcomes and reporting requirements
  • Promoting equality, diversity and inclusive practice across all work

  What were looking for

  • Experience in substance misuse, mental health or wellbeing services
  • Strong leadership and supervisory experience
  • Confidence delivering both group and individual interventions
  • Ability to build effective working relationships across agencies
  • Organised, proactive and solution-focused approach
  • Commitment to high-quality, person-centred support
  • Welsh and English speaking preferred

  This is a chance to step into a senior position where youll directly influence recovery journeys while developing and leading a team. Youll be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary service focused on meaningful change and positive outcomes.

  If youre ready to take the next step in your career and make a real difference, wed 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 -

• Flexible working
• Support for Families We support our employees through every stage of family life by offering enhanced maternity and paternity pay for eligible employees who have completed 26 weeks' continuous service, alongside family-friendly policies and a supportive, inclusive workplace. If you'd like more information about our family-friendly benefits, please contact our Recruitment Team at
• 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