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  • About The Role

  • Are you looking to make a meaningful impact in a role that truly matters?

    Join The Forward Trust as a part-time Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, supporting service users at Heathrow IRC with substance misuse, low-level mental health needs and wider wellbeing concerns. Working 14 hours per week, you’ll join a supportive, multidisciplinary team delivering compassionate, person-centred care in a unique setting.

    What You’ll Do

    • In this varied and rewarding role, you will:
    • Attend daily referral meetings and team huddles
    • Contribute to multi-disciplinary reviews
    • Complete assessments, risk management and personalised recovery plans
    • Manage a caseload and deliver both group sessions and 1:1 interventions
    • Promote and signpost additional support services
    • Support release or discharge planning to ensure continuity of care
    • Maintain accurate records in line with GDPR requirements
    • Produce reports and engagement summaries for official use
    • Contribute to ongoing service improvement and organisational goals
    • Provide transitional support from the centre to the community
    • Engage in required training and professional development

    Working in Partnership

    Collaboration is key. You’ll work closely with teams across Housing, Employment, Gym, Healthcare, Probation, and specialist agencies, both within the centre and in the community, ensuring each service user receives holistic, joined-up support.

    Training & Development

    Your growth matters. Completion of the Drug and Alcohol Workforce Development Programme (DAWFDP) is mandatory. This structured 12-month programme, aligned with the OHID capability framework, will begin as soon as you join us and will support your continued professional development.

    Join us and help people take their first steps toward healthier, more hopeful futures, your impact could change a life.

    Please see attached Job Description for full details

  • 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
      • 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)
      Diversity at Forward Trust
      The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

      When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

      To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.  

      Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
      Dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

      If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.
      Our Commitment to Safeguarding
      We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults at risk. Forward Trust follow safer recruitment practices and support a culture of openness and accountability.

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