Health & Wellbeing Practitioner
| Posting date: | 27 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £27,720 to £31,542 per year |
| Additional salary information: | including London Weighting where appropriate |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 September 2025 |
| Location: | Guildford, Surrey |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JOB0246 |
Summary
Join our new team as a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, making a real difference in the community - Empowering Lives, One Step at a Time in Surrey!
The Role
You will be a dynamic, driven individual who is committed to supporting residents in Guildford and Waverley address their Alcohol use to improve their health and wellbeing. Working closely with primary care services and other key stakeholders you will provide brief interventions, signposting and onward referral, helping to meet individual’s needs.
The role will require:
• Working with the local community, making every contact count through motivational interviewing and brief advice and intervention.
• Identifying and targeting known key partnerships.
• Supporting the Surrey County Council to collate and gather information from a range of sources, partner agencies and residents to evaluate project success.
You will:
• have experience of working with people who are experiencing alcohol difficulties or who are vulnerable.
• carry a caseload ensuring that assessments of need are conducted thoroughly, that safeguarding of those who use our service, their families and the wider community are protected from harm.
• have responsibility for planning and delivery of effective treatment interventions for people.
• deliver face to face, group work utilising evidenced based interventions.
The Service
This is a new community alcohol brief intervention service targeting 2 Surrey boroughs, Guildford and Waverley.
The service will work closely with primary care networks, GP’s and other key stakeholders to refer individuals that want support for their low threshold alcohol use. We will provide brief interventions, signposting and advice and guidance to support improved health and wellbeing outcomes.
As a new service the successful candidate will be crucial in building new partnerships and developing service pathways and processes.
Location
This role will provide support dynamically across Guildford and Waverley, working from community venues and GP’s surgeries.
Via have a base in Woking which is accessible to staff for this project, The Xchange, 20 High Street, Woking.
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
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Vanessa Duke, Area Director via Vanessa.Duke@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Thursday 9 October at midnight. We reserve the right to close this advert early on recruitment of a successful candidate. Complete applications in a timely manner to avoid disappointment.
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
You will be a dynamic, driven individual who is committed to supporting residents in Guildford and Waverley address their Alcohol use to improve their health and wellbeing. Working closely with primary care services and other key stakeholders you will provide brief interventions, signposting and onward referral, helping to meet individual’s needs.
The role will require:
• Working with the local community, making every contact count through motivational interviewing and brief advice and intervention.
• Identifying and targeting known key partnerships.
• Supporting the Surrey County Council to collate and gather information from a range of sources, partner agencies and residents to evaluate project success.
You will:
• have experience of working with people who are experiencing alcohol difficulties or who are vulnerable.
• carry a caseload ensuring that assessments of need are conducted thoroughly, that safeguarding of those who use our service, their families and the wider community are protected from harm.
• have responsibility for planning and delivery of effective treatment interventions for people.
• deliver face to face, group work utilising evidenced based interventions.
The Service
This is a new community alcohol brief intervention service targeting 2 Surrey boroughs, Guildford and Waverley.
The service will work closely with primary care networks, GP’s and other key stakeholders to refer individuals that want support for their low threshold alcohol use. We will provide brief interventions, signposting and advice and guidance to support improved health and wellbeing outcomes.
As a new service the successful candidate will be crucial in building new partnerships and developing service pathways and processes.
Location
This role will provide support dynamically across Guildford and Waverley, working from community venues and GP’s surgeries.
Via have a base in Woking which is accessible to staff for this project, The Xchange, 20 High Street, Woking.
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
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Vanessa Duke, Area Director via Vanessa.Duke@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Thursday 9 October at midnight. We reserve the right to close this advert early on recruitment of a successful candidate. Complete applications in a timely manner to avoid disappointment.
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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