Recovery Worker
Location : HMP Wormwood Scrubs, London
Salary: A GBP 25,154 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent
We are recruiting for a Recovery Worker at HMP Wormwood Scrubs.
Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment. Our support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes.
The Forward Trust services which are delivered within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and are delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are integral to the work we do.
We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past. Our work in prisons aims to support those affected by drug or alcohol issues to create lasting change and reduce dependency, homelessness, unemployment and re:offending.
Roles Responsibilities
You will be working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over (dependent on service) to support service delivery providing harm minimisation, continuity of care and recovery support.
You will hold a case load of service users and participate in rotating daily duties that can include induction clinics and group programme facilitation. Working in a busy prison environment, in partnership with Prison operational staff and health care teams, none medical prescribers.
Services are designed to deliver Psychosocial Drug and Alcohol Interventions for Service users that are identified as having an Alcohol or drug problem. Services will deliver client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence:based treatment approaches depending on the requirements of the individual client.
You will be offered a thorough induction at an organisational and service level. Training provided included eLearning live workshops. You will be provided with training from the Prison to support you feeling safe and confident in the expectations of you being a key holder.
All prison:based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 8:12 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.
Checks will require you to provide information on the below:
* Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
* Your family (parents, parents partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
* Co:residents
* Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
* Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
* Credit reference checks
* Social media and Open:Source checks (these are checks on content about you thats publicly available on the internet to ensure theres nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
* Other government and overseas agency or police checks.
The Ideal Candidate
* Experience of working within the substance misuse services.
* Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments, risk management plans and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
* Experience of delivering structured interventions to service users.
* Experience of facilitating groups.
* Using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and group settings.
* Strong IT skills.
* Understanding of continuity of care, holistic care needs and community services
* Experience of promoting and supporting Equality and Diversity Knowledge
About Us
We are The Forward Trust, 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 tha