Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

Location: Buckinghamshire

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Part Time

Closing Date: 20th November 2025

Are you passionate about supporting people to make positive life changes? Join our dedicated team as a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, working 17.5 hours per week within an integrated healthcare framework to support adults affected by drug and alcohol use.

About the Role

You'll deliver client-centred treatment and recovery support for offenders entering prison who are identified as having substance misuse issues. Using both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches, you'll help clients achieve meaningful progress towards a healthier, more stable future.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Managing a caseload and delivering tailored 1:1 and group sessions
• Providing harm reduction advice and structured treatment programmes
• Completing assessments, care plans, and documenting progress
• Working closely with healthcare, probation, housing, and other partner agencies to ensure continuity of care pre- and post-release
• Supporting the delivery of psychosocial interventions and accredited treatment programmes

You'll also contribute to Forward's service targets, working collaboratively with local commissioners and partner organisations to deliver measurable outcomes.

What We're Looking For

• Experience supporting individuals with substance misuse or mental health needs
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Ability to work flexibly, occasional evening or weekend shifts may be required
• Willingness to travel between projects within your cluster when needed
• Confidence in completing oral swab tests and acting as a second signatory for clinical work

At Forward, you'll be part of a team that believes in second chances. We offer comprehensive training, opportunities for growth, and the chance to make a genuine impact on people's lives every day.

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)

Diversity at Forward Trust

The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with 'Lived Experience' of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the 'Eligibility to Work in the UK' requirements.

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 their website to complete your application.