Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

Location: Cardiff

Salary: £26,787 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

About The Role

We're looking for a passionate and proactive Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our team at HMP Cardiff on a full-time basis (37.5 hours per week). This is an opportunity to support individuals on their journey towards positive change, helping them improve their health, wellbeing, and prospects for a successful return to the community.

You'll manage a varied caseload, deliver tailored interventions, and work collaboratively with service users to develop meaningful care and release plans that support long-term recovery and wellbeing.

What You'll Be Doing

• Managing a caseload of service users and coordinating their treatment journeys
• Conducting assessments and developing person-centred care plans
• Delivering structured 1:1 interventions and facilitating group sessions
• Providing harm reduction advice and wellbeing support
• Supporting release planning and through-care arrangements for individuals returning to the community
• Carrying out second signatory duties and supporting clinical services
• Working closely with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies
• Maintaining accurate case records and performance data to meet service targets

What We're Looking For

• Experience supporting individuals with complex health, wellbeing, substance use, or related needs
• Strong assessment, case management, and communication skills
• Ability to build positive relationships and motivate change
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Confidence working in a fast-paced, target-driven environment
• A collaborative and solution-focused approach

This is more than a job, it's a chance to play a vital role in rehabilitation, recovery, and reducing reoffending. You'll be part of a supportive team that values innovation, partnership working, and making a genuine impact on people's lives every day.

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.