Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life? Do you have an interest in tackling complex or challenging cases, whilst supporting people to reduce drug related harm and offending?
We are currently recruiting for an experienced worker to join our criminal justice team within the Isle of Wight. This post is aimed at providing assessment and support for people who are part of the criminal justice system, who also experience difficulties associated with drug use.
You will be offering caseload support to the current Criminal Justice Worker and offering information and advice to people who access the service.
Main duties of the job
Full Time Criminal Justice Engagement Worker post, for a period of 6 months.
* Work as an integral part of the service in delivering high quality brief interventions to Service Users within the criminal justice system.
* Work with and support the Inclusion multi-disciplinary team.
* Facilitate harm reduction interventions including the delivery of Naloxone training to clients, families, and partnerships.
* Support service users who are released from custody, as well as supporting service users digitally who are released from other prisons.
* Contribute to service users working collaboratively to build their recovery capital and ensuring positive recovery outcomes.
* Ensure service users have scheduled appointments and remove barriers to attendance.
* Promote visible recovery to clients within the criminal justice system.
About us
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, 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
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details; a summary is below:
* To work with service users in attendance and manage day-to-day issues which arise upon release from custody or prisons.
* To signpost to local services and empower service users to build their community networks and recovery capital.
* To promote visible and contagious recovery to service users within the criminal justice systems.
* To work collaboratively with all service users, partner agencies, and stakeholders to identify the barriers that prevent people from all communities accessing a full range of services, including substance misuse, mental health wellbeing, and primary mental health services.
* Engage service users into treatment and through their Recovery Journey.
* Complete screening and asset-based mapping to identify appropriate recovery-focused interventions.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of working in the drug and alcohol field.
* Experience of working in the criminal justice field or with people involved with the criminal justice system.
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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