Do you want to make a real difference as Psychosocial Recovery Worker? Why not bring your compassion and skills to help support individuals in their recovery?
Our Substance Misuse Service at HMP Foston Hall, a female remand prison, is looking for a dynamic and experienced Recovery Worker to join our busy, friendly and professional team. The Substance Misuse Team is an innovative forward-thinking team, committed to a Recovery focused approach that meets individual's needs.
This is an exciting and energetic role for an individual who is passionate about providing good quality substance misuse support within a busy and rewarding environment. The variety of the role will keep things fresh and stimulating whilst being part of a supportive team with effective management providing supervision and guidance.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide a range of low, medium and high intensity interventions to our service users experiencing substance misuse problems.
2. To work within a multi-disciplinary team, in a custodial environment delivering a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
3. To provide a range of psycho-social interventions motivating and supporting service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service.
4. To work in collaboration with clinical prescribing services to ensure the needs of each service user is met and that integrated working is a key element to Inclusion's prison services.
5. To provide a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psycho-social interventions) to problem drug and alcohol users located within the prison establishment.
6. To contribute to and work within the prison and wider drug strategy.
About us
Inclusion, created in 2002, is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.
We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realizing all the benefits a modern NHS organization can provide.
We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.
Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!
Job responsibilities
This is an opportunity to work with individuals who have complex offending backgrounds and mental health needs. Working in prisons can be challenging as well as rewarding, and this opportunity is a fantastic chance to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are often disadvantaged and vulnerable.
* You will be able to demonstrate skill and experience of providing evidence-based psychological/psychosocial interventions geared towards supporting service users to make positive changes and work towards recovery.
* You will be highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire.
* You will be enthusiastic about working within an ever-changing prison environment.
* You will work in a fully multi-disciplinary team to provide varied and comprehensive interventions in-line with the stepped care model.
* You will work to assist service users to progress through their sentence and onto their resettlement in the community.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for the full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NVQ 3 Health & Social Care (or commitment to work towards) And/Or Relevant experience in comparable setting.
* Relevant training/Qualification in associated field: CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Brief solution focused therapy, Mapping techniques, Auricular acupuncture trained, and SMART Recovery.
Experience
* Experience of integrated working practices and 12 months minimum of working with substance users.
* Experience of group facilitation.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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