Are you passionate about supporting individuals to make lasting changes in their lives? Join us as a Regional Health & Wellbeing Practitioner, delivering recovery-focused interventions to adults in custody across Surrey’s prison estate. You’ll work as part of an integrated, multidisciplinary team, playing a key role in supporting people with substance misuse and/or low-level mental health needs on their journey toward recovery and reintegration.
As part of our Health & Wellbeing Framework, you’ll provide tailored psychosocial support to individuals aged 18+ in custody. Working flexibly across multiple prison locations, you’ll assess needs, deliver 1:1 and group interventions, support release planning, and contribute to multi-agency pathways including housing, family services, clinical care, and employment.
You’ll be part of a highly skilled and supportive team, committed to a trauma-informed, gender-responsive, and person-centered approach.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct risk, initial, and comprehensive assessments to inform individual treatment plans
- Deliver a range of structured 1:1 sessions, group work, and therapeutic programmes
- Facilitate Health & Wellbeing Recovery interventions across multiple prison sites
- Support release planning and through-care pathways into community services
- Collaborate with partner agencies to ensure a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach
- Perform second signatory duties and oral swab testing where required
- Maintain accurate and timely records to support monitoring and evaluation (e.g. NDTMS)
What We’re Looking For:
We’re looking for a dedicated and skilled professional who brings the following essential experience and qualities:
- Experience in Substance Misuse Services
- Proven background in supporting individuals with drug and/or alcohol issues, ideally within structured service settings.
- Facilitating Structured Interventions and Therapeutic Groups
- Demonstrated experience in delivering evidence-based group work and structured psychosocial interventions tailored to service user needs.
- Practical Counselling Skills
- Ability to apply counselling techniques effectively in 1:1 settings to support service users through their recovery journey.
Please note this role is 37.5 hours per week.