How to change excerpt length from characters to word - wordpress

I recently bought a new Wordpress theme but all my custom excerpts are being cut-off based on character count rather than word count. I've found the excerpt.php file that the theme is using and I think the issue down comes down to the use of substr, but I can't figure out how to change it to fix it. I tried replacing it with wp_trim_words but then I just saw a number rather than text in my excerpts.
Would be grateful if someone can point me in the right direction!
The code:
$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
if ( ! empty( $excerpt ) ) {
$excerpt_length = healthfirst_get_search_page_excerpt_length();
$new_excerpt = ( $excerpt_length > 0 ) ? substr( $excerpt, 0, intval( $excerpt_length ) ) : $excerpt;
?>
<p itemprop="description" class="qodef-e-excerpt">
<?php echo esc_html( strip_tags( strip_shortcodes( $new_excerpt ) ) ); ?>
</p>
<?php }

You can replace this line..
$new_excerpt = ( $excerpt_length > 0 ) ? substr( $excerpt, 0, intval( $excerpt_length ) ) : $excerpt;
.. with.
$new_excerpt = wp_trim_words( $excerpt, 10 );
You do not need the condition since you are trying to override the excerpt length. You can actually remove this line afterwards.
$excerpt_length = healthfirst_get_search_page_excerpt_length();
Unless it is still used somewhere else in that file or function.

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