Health and Wellbeing Practitioner
Location: Cardiff
Salary: £26,786.93 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
We are looking for a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our Integrated Substance Misuse Team. This is a rewarding opportunity to support male adults with both substance misuse needs and low-level mental health or emotional wellbeing difficulties.
As a dual-trained practitioner, you will work holistically with service users, helping them to make positive changes, improve their wellbeing and take steps towards recovery. You will work both one-to-one and within group settings, building strong relationships with service users and partner agencies.
We are committed to providing inclusive services that recognise and value individual differences, and we welcome people from all cultural backgrounds, ages, sexual orientations and walks of life.
What you’ll be doing
As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will:
- Manage a caseload of service users and provide ongoing support throughout their journey.
- Work with male adults experiencing substance misuse and low-level mental health or emotional wellbeing needs.
- Provide one-to-one, face-to-face support.
- Deliver and facilitate group interventions.
- Complete assessments and develop appropriate care plans with service users.
- Provide advice, information and guidance around substance misuse, health and wellbeing.
- Identify service users' needs and make appropriate referrals to specialist services where required.
- Work collaboratively with service users to identify goals and support positive, sustainable change.
- Monitor progress and contribute to measuring outcomes.
- Work closely with colleagues and external agencies to provide coordinated support.
- Attend meetings with multi-agency partners when required, representing Forward Trust professionally.
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has experience of working within substance misuse, health and wellbeing, mental health or a related support setting.
- Has relevant knowledge, training or qualifications in substance misuse and/or low-level mental health and emotional wellbeing.
- Is passionate about supporting people to make positive and lasting changes.
- Has excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Can build trusting, respectful and professional relationships with service users.
- Is confident delivering both individual and group-based interventions.
- Is able to assess needs, develop care plans and identify appropriate referrals.
- Can manage a caseload effectively and prioritise competing demands.
- Works well both independently and as part of a wider team.
- Is confident working collaboratively with external agencies and multi-agency partners.
- Understands the importance of measuring outcomes and working towards agreed targets.
- Is organised, reliable and able to maintain accurate records.
Our mission is to bring lasting change to people’s lives by delivering services that inspire the belief in a better life and provide clear steps to achieve this change.
As a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, you will have the opportunity to work alongside people on their recovery journey, helping them to address substance misuse, improve their emotional wellbeing and build the skills and confidence needed for a healthier future.
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
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'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)
Please note that remote roles may require occasional travel for site visits, training and meetings.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application
