Senior Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - #2066093

Senior Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Usk Prescoed and Canol

Location: Cardiff

Salary: £28,742.18 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full time

About The Role

Are you passionate about helping people make lasting change?

We’re looking for a Senior Health & Wellbeing Practitioner to join our Integrated Substance Misuse Team at HMP Usk, Prescoed & Canol, working full time (37.5 hours per week). This is a rewarding leadership role supporting adult males within a prison setting, combining frontline clinical work with team management and service development.

You’ll play a key role in supporting individuals with substance misuse and low-level mental health or emotional wellbeing needs, helping them progress through structured recovery journeys and achieve positive outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

• Line managing Health & Wellbeing Practitioners and supporting their development


• Managing a varied caseload and delivering 1:1 interventions and group work


• Carrying out assessments, care planning and appropriate referrals


• Working closely with healthcare teams and multi-agency partners


• Supporting service performance, outcomes and reporting requirements


• Promoting equality, diversity and inclusive practice across all work

What we’re looking for

• Experience in substance misuse, mental health or wellbeing services


• Strong leadership and supervisory experience


• Confidence delivering both group and individual interventions


• Ability to build effective working relationships across agencies


• Organised, proactive and solution-focused approach


• Commitment to high-quality, person-centred support


• Welsh and English speaking preferred

This is a chance to step into a senior position where you’ll directly influence recovery journeys while developing and leading a team. You’ll be part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary service focused on meaningful change and positive outcomes.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you.

All prison-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 5 months to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks.

Please note if you have lived overseas within the last 5 years then checks may take longer.

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


• Training and development opportunities


• BHSF 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 we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

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.