Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - HMP Brixton

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.

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.

• 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

• 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.