Health & Wellbeing Practitioner
| Posting date: | 30 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £29,124 to £32,946 per year |
| Additional salary information: | including London Weighting where appropriate |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 May 2025 |
| Location: | Brent Cross, North West London |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | JOB0177 |
Summary
Would you like to join us in supporting those effected by drug and alcohol issues to improve their health and wellbeing?
The Role
As the Health and Wellbeing Practitioner you will work to coach awareness of unhealthy habits and associated risks, provide advice and guidance on how to change behaviours. It will include a manualised short (no longer than 6 to 8 weeks) program of interventions and encourage and signpost to the local services when appropriate.
This role will require some work outside of normal working hours and across the London Borough of Brent.
You will:
• develop and deliver a specialist wellbeing function in the community for low complexity and low dependency substance users. Offering advice, support, guidance and coaching to promote positive future behaviours, including:
o proactive and assertive assessment and engagement activities,
o education on the impact of substances on health and wellbeing,
o explore behaviours and identify methods to make positive change,
o planning for changing and maintaining future healthy behaviours.
• deliver interventions in a variety of settings including GP practices and community centres, in one-to-one, face-to-face, digital and remote ways, at a range of times including evenings and weekends, to provide a wide range of accessibility options and reduce barriers to maximise engagement.
• provide a highly visible point of contact to promote the service, working proactively and collaboratively with colleagues and all stakeholders, both internally and externally.
The Service
Via Brent, New Beginnings is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing psychosocial and clinical interventions in partnership with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL). The service is based across 2 hubs; Cobbold Road and the Willesden Centre for Health. The team actively promotes recovery and works with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing and functioning of Brent residents, irrespective of circumstance.
Location
This post will be based across both New Beginnings Hubs as well as remotely across the London Borough of Brent.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.
For an informal chat about the role, contact Max Griffiths, Service Manager, Max.Griffiths@viaorg.uk or 07557 393980.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 25 May at midnight.
Interviews will take place week commencing 2 June.
All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
The Role
As the Health and Wellbeing Practitioner you will work to coach awareness of unhealthy habits and associated risks, provide advice and guidance on how to change behaviours. It will include a manualised short (no longer than 6 to 8 weeks) program of interventions and encourage and signpost to the local services when appropriate.
This role will require some work outside of normal working hours and across the London Borough of Brent.
You will:
• develop and deliver a specialist wellbeing function in the community for low complexity and low dependency substance users. Offering advice, support, guidance and coaching to promote positive future behaviours, including:
o proactive and assertive assessment and engagement activities,
o education on the impact of substances on health and wellbeing,
o explore behaviours and identify methods to make positive change,
o planning for changing and maintaining future healthy behaviours.
• deliver interventions in a variety of settings including GP practices and community centres, in one-to-one, face-to-face, digital and remote ways, at a range of times including evenings and weekends, to provide a wide range of accessibility options and reduce barriers to maximise engagement.
• provide a highly visible point of contact to promote the service, working proactively and collaboratively with colleagues and all stakeholders, both internally and externally.
The Service
Via Brent, New Beginnings is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing psychosocial and clinical interventions in partnership with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL). The service is based across 2 hubs; Cobbold Road and the Willesden Centre for Health. The team actively promotes recovery and works with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing and functioning of Brent residents, irrespective of circumstance.
Location
This post will be based across both New Beginnings Hubs as well as remotely across the London Borough of Brent.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.
For an informal chat about the role, contact Max Griffiths, Service Manager, Max.Griffiths@viaorg.uk or 07557 393980.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 25 May at midnight.
Interviews will take place week commencing 2 June.
All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
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