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Trainee Health and Wellbeing Practitioner – HMP Send
Location: Bisley, Woking
Salary: £22,932
Vacancy Type: Contract, Full Time
Advertising End Date: 13th March 2026
About The Role
Ready to start a career that changes lives, including your own?
We’re looking for a Trainee Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our team at HMP Send. This full-time (35 hours) role offers the chance to gain hands-on experience, structured training and a recognised qualification (subject to criteria), all while making a real difference within a prison setting.
You’ll be assigned to a dedicated service unit and supported throughout your traineeship by an experienced team member. Through structured mentoring, regular reviews and practical learning, you’ll develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to become fully competent in your role.
What you’ll be doing:
* Shadowing experienced practitioners in a live service environment
* Carrying out risk, initial and comprehensive assessments
* Supporting service users to shape personalised treatment and release plans
* Delivering 1:1 interventions and co-facilitating group programmes
* Planning and managing your caseload effectively
* Reviewing ongoing care alongside healthcare professionals and partner agencies
* Accurately collecting and recording data for audit, research and reporting
You’ll develop skills in:
* Substance misuse and mental health group facilitation
* Understanding KPIs and contributing to service targets
* Integrated, multi-disciplinary working
* Maintaining high-quality, audit-ready case documentation
* Risk awareness, safeguarding and confidentiality
* Second signatory processes and oral swab testing (where required)
This traineeship offers a structured and supportive development journey, combining practical, on-the-job experience.
You’ll receive regular progress reviews to ensure you stay on track, alongside dedicated mentoring to support your growth. As part of the programme, there is a compulsory therapy element, and as the service operates seven days a week, weekend working will be required on a rota basis.
This is more than a traineeship, it’s a launchpad into a rewarding career in health and wellbeing within the criminal justice system.
If you’re compassionate, motivated and ready to grow professionally while supporting others to rebuild their lives, apply today.
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.
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)
Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know.
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.
To Apply
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