Criminal Justice Recovery Worker
Location: Margate, Kent
Salary: £24,000 per annum
We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with 'Lived Experience'. We encourage applications from all backgrounds including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, those with experience of previous offending or homelessness.
What you will be doing:
Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over (dependent on service). Services are designed to deliver Psychosocial Drug and Alcohol Interventions for service users 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 individual client's requirements. You will be required to manage clients who have been referred through Criminal Justice (CJ) referral routes from courts, police custody, and prisons; services provided will be integrated within the substance misuse service to provide appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assess, care plan, and deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions including structured treatment programmes.
Through care and integration with other services such as Housing, Employment, Healthcare services, Probation, and CRCs are essential elements of the work; communication with all CJ partner agencies is key to this role to ensure that outcomes and attendance are clearly demonstrated. You will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners, with a key focus on measuring outcomes, making cooperative working relationships with partner agencies vital.
Flexibility will be required in this role, which may include some evening/weekend shifts and reasonable notice to travel to other projects in the East Kent region to deliver services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.
What we are looking for:
1. Experience of working within substance misuse services and with CJ clients.
2. Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments, risk management plans, and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
3. Experience of working with CJ agencies such as the police, probation, CRC, and prisons.
4. Experience of delivering structured interventions to service users.
5. Experience of facilitating groups.
6. Using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and group settings.
7. Strong IT skills.
8. Understanding of continuity of care, holistic care needs, and community services.
9. Experience of promoting and supporting Equality and Diversity.
10. Knowledge of the issues facing substance misusers.
11. Knowledge of the criminal justice sector.
12. Knowledge of the Recovery Agenda.
13. Knowledge of Safeguarding.
14. A thorough knowledge of and commitment to the 12-step process of recovery from addiction.
15. Knowledge of Community Support Services.
What we offer:
* Training opportunities and career development.
* Flexible working.
* Season Ticket Loan Scheme.
* Cycle to Work Scheme.
* 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays.
* 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).
To Apply:
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application: Application Link.
*We reserve the right to close vacancies early.
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