Health & Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Aylesbury
The Forward Trust
- Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop and contribute to the Substance Misuse and general Health and Wellbeing care needs of service users, supporting them 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 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.
- Knowledge of the issues facing substance misusers and low-level mental health issues
- Demonstratable experience of carrying out risk assessments, comprehensive assessments and the design and implementation os 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 services to prisoners, or those with Health and Welling, or drug and / or alocohol problems
- 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)
- Critical illness insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)