Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Brixton

Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Brixton Location: Brixton Salary: £27,000 per annum Vacancy Type: Permanent About The Role Are you passionate about recovery, resilience, and making a real impact? Join our Substance Misuse Service at HMP Brixton, delivering life-changing psychosocial interventions within an integrated healthcare model known as New Models of Care (NMOC). Based on site in a men''s Category C resettlement prison, you''ll work as part of a skilled, multidisciplinary team supporting adults experiencing drug and/or alcohol misuse, helping them stabilise, recover, and prepare for release. About the role As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you''ll deliver recovery-orientated, trauma-informed interventions across the prison, including Early Days in Custody (EDiC), planned and unscheduled care, and release and resettlement. Key responsibilities include: Managing a caseload of service users Completing assessments and care plans Delivering structured 1:1 and group interventions Providing harm reduction advice and guidance Contributing to accredited treatment programmes (where relevant) Working closely with healthcare, probation, housing, employment, gym and external drug services to support through-care and resettlement Supporting service targets set by Forward and local commissioners What you''ll need A commitment to recovery-focused, trauma-informed practice Confidence working with individuals presenting substance misuse and low-level mental health needs ..... full job details .....