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Location: Essex
Salary: A GBP 26,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Are you passionate about helping people overcome barriers and build positive futures? Do you believe everyone deserves the opportunity to make lasting change?
We're looking for a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our dedicated team, supporting adult and young men within the Criminal Justice System to improve their wellbeing, develop resilience and successfully reintegrate into their communities.
This is more than a job - it's an opportunity to transform lives.
What you'll be doing
Working alongside experienced practitioners and partner organisations, you'll deliver personalised health and wellbeing support that empowers people to make meaningful, sustainable changes.
You'll provide tailored one:to:one and group interventions covering:
- Family and significant relationships
- Lifestyle and positive social networks
- Emotional wellbeing
- Social inclusion and community integration
From supporting individuals in custody to helping them transition successfully back into the community, you'll play a vital role in every stage of their journey.
You'll be responsible for
- Managing your own caseload and building trusted relationships with clients
- Assessing individual needs and developing personalised support plans
- Delivering engaging one:to:one and group sessions
- Providing practical advice, guidance and wellbeing interventions
- Working closely with prison teams, community services and partner agencies to ensure seamless support
- Recording outcomes and contributing to service performance targets
- Helping people develop the confidence and skills to lead healthier, more independent lives
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What we're looking for
You'll be someone who is
- Passionate about supporting vulnerable people to achieve positive change
- A skilled communicator who can build trust with people from diverse backgrounds
- Organised, resilient and confident managing a varied caseload
- Comfortable delivering both individual and group interventions
- A collaborative team player who enjoys working with partner agencies
Experience within criminal justice, health, wellbeing, substance misuse, mental health, housing, probation or social care is desirable, but above all we're looking for someone who genuinely wants to make a difference.
All probation-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 6-16 weeks to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks.
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.
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Benefits
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 as 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.
- 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 for part-time employees)
- Access to Blue Light Card
- 25 days (rising to
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