Do you want to make a real difference as a Substance Misuse Psychosocial Recovery Worker? Do you have 12 months of experience working with people with Substance misuse needs? Why not bring your compassion and skills to help support people in their recovery?
Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Service at HMP Dovegate is looking for a dynamic and experienced Substance Misuse Recovery Worker. The team is innovative, forward thinking and committed to a Recovery focused approach that meets people's needs. You will be part of a supportive team with effective management, supervision and guidance.
Working with people who have complex offending backgrounds, substance misuse and mental health needs within prison is both challenging and rewarding. This is a fantastic chance to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are often disadvantaged and vulnerable.
Are You
* Passionate about providing high quality substance misuse interventions, care and support?
* Skilled and experienced in providing evidence based psychosocial structured interventions geared towards supporting people to make positive changes and work towards recovery from drug and alcohol use?
* Highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire?
* Able to apply your skills/interventions to the care of people with mild to moderate mental health needs that often co-exist with substance misuse needs.
If so, we want to hear from you!
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Providing a range of low, medium and high intensity psychosocial substance misuse interventions as part of the Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Team to those people experiencing substance misuse problems.
2. Working in a custodial environment delivering a high quality drug and alcohol recovery service in response to need.
3. Providing a range of psycho-social interventions motivating and supporting people to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service.
4. Working in collaboration with clinical prescribing services to ensure the needs of each service user is met.
5. Providing a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psycho-social interventions) to people located within the prison establishment.
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!
For more information about HMP Dovegate and our incentives offer please see the attached information.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sarah Rowley
Job title: Psychosocial Cluster Manager
Email address: Sarah.Rowley@mpft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01283 829517
If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Sarah as we would love to hear from you.
* Please note that we do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if made via the website. Thank you.
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