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
- Willingness to complete the Drug and Alcohol Workforce Development Programme, a mandatory 12-month professional development programme aligned with the OHID capability framework
If you’re motivated, compassionate, and ready to make a difference in a challenging but rewarding environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Please see attached Job Description for full details