Recovery Counsellors x 2 Required: HMP Prisons, London
HMP Wormwood Scrubs & HMP Brixton (Part Time)
Position Type: Indefinite Full-Time
We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
What you will be doing?
The Substance Misuse Services at HMP Wormwood Scrubs and HMP Brixton are commissioned to deliver psychosocial interventions within an integrated healthcare framework known as the New Models of Care (NMOC). The team works in close partnership with healthcare services to deliver services across various functions including Early Days in Custody (EDiC), unscheduled care, planned care, release and resettlement. The service is based on-site within the prison delivering interventions directly to service users aged 18 and over residing at both prisons.
The service takes a recovery-oriented and trauma-informed approach to the delivery of holistic health and wellbeing interventions and various treatment programmes for those coming into the prison who experience drugs and/or alcohol misuse issues. As Recovery Counsellor, you will support the integrated Services to deliver a counselling service using appropriate interventions dependent on the requirements of the individual client.
You will be required to manage a caseload, deliver psychosocial structured 1:1 and group work sessions and group therapy. The role will require you to work collaboratively alongside a team of Recovery Workers to enhance effective engagement of clients in structured treatment programmes and other interventions. As Recovery Counsellor, you will be expected to take a proactive approach to building partnerships with mental health, wider healthcare services and the prison.
Please note this role will be based working across both HMP Brixton and HMP Wormwood Scrubs, therefore travel will be required between sites.
What we are looking for?
* To provide counselling assessments and treatment of clients referred into the Footsteps and/or Bridge programmes.
* To formulate and implement cohesive counselling treatment and/or management plans for clients' mental health and wellbeing needs.
* To evaluate treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models.
* To provide counselling advice and consultation to clients when required.
* To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.
Service Delivery
* To receive regular counselling and management supervision from Team Leaders and external supervisors.
* To plan and facilitate counselling sessions as part of the Wellbeing and Recovery range of interventions.
* To manage a caseload to whom one-to-one counselling is provided.
* To engage in a collaborative manner to build resilience and hope focusing on recovery.
* To maintain up to date, accurate official counselling records.
Departmental Management
* Participate and contribute to raising mental health and wellbeing awareness.
* To provide an in-depth emotional and psychological assessment of clients referred through Programmes.
Quality and Safety
* To facilitate individual counselling and group work interventions (if required).
What we offer
* Training opportunities and career development
* Season ticket loan scheme
* Electric Car Scheme
* Crisis Loan Scheme
* Simply Health – Health Cashback Scheme
* 3 x Wellbeing Days (Pro Rata’d for Part Time Employees)
* Access to Blue Light Card
* Cycle to work scheme
* 25 Days annual leave plus Bank Holidays (rising to 30 days with length of service)
* Excellent contributory pension scheme. Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter.
* Death in service payment (2x annual salary)
* Critical illness insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
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