Main area: Substance Misuse Recovery Support Worker
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 301-IT-25-6909784
Employer: Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services
Employer type: NHS
Site: HMP Gartree
Town: Leicestershire
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/01/2025 23:59
Recovery Support Worker & Interventions Facilitator
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has opened up within the Inclusion Team at HMP Gartree.
As a band 4 Recovery Support Worker, you will be delivering evidence-based interventions in group and 1:1 settings with our service users. You will carry a caseload and manage that effectively.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining a well-established, hard-working team who will support you in your new role. Your day-to-day job will be to support the men in your care through their recovery plan. This will be through the delivery of group work sessions and 1:1 interventions.
You will support the Under the Influence Pathway, and report writing and updating case notes will be an important part of your role.
You will provide a range of low, medium, and high-intensity interventions as part of the substance misuse team to those service users experiencing substance misuse problems.
Working within a multi-disciplinary team in a custodial environment, you will be 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, supporting with the Recovery Champions and mentors.
You will provide a range of psycho-social interventions, motivating and supporting service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-oriented substance misuse treatment service.
Collaborating with clinical prescribing services, you will ensure the needs of each service user are met and that integrated working is a key element of Inclusion’s prison services.
Working for our organisation
Inclusion, created in 2002, is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, supporting individuals, families, and communities affected by addiction, crime, mental health, or need treatment for their sexual health.
We believe that individuals and families who use our services should receive high-quality, committed, and inclusive care. 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 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!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. A summary is as follows:
* Organise a programme of group work within the establishment and facilitate group work interventions as directed by the Line Manager.
* Accept referrals, assess needs, and make appropriate prioritisation for group work attendees.
* Provide harm reduction advice, information, and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B, and C, and other blood-borne infections.
* Maintain an appropriate caseload with key worker responsibility.
* Carry out comprehensive assessments as required by the line manager.
* Co-produce and construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues, review care plans in a structured format, and manage onward referrals.
* Demonstrate commitment to service user involvement and lead service user projects.
* Be involved with recruitment, management, and supervision of recovery champions and mentors, providing them with training and regular support to further develop the lived experience network.
* Work with a range of professionals to ensure service users’ needs in terms of safeguarding and mental health are met.
Person specification
Experience
* Experience in a Health & Social Care setting.
Qualifications
* Qualification in a health and social care area.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you, then please get in touch with Rachael as we would love to hear from you.
**** We do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if made via the website.****
****This vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.****
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