Job overview
An exciting opportunity has opened up within the Inclusion Team at HMP Gartree.
As a band 4 Recovery Support Worker, you will be delivering evidence-based interventions in a group and 1:1 setting with our service users.
You will carry a caseload and manage that effectively.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining a well-established, hard-working team who will support you in your new role. Your day-to-day job will be to support the men in your care through their recovery plan. This will be through the delivery of group work sessions and 1:1 interventions.
You will support the Under the Influence Pathway, and report writing and updating case notes will be an important part of your role.
You will provide a range of low, medium, and high-intensity interventions as part of the substance misuse team to those service users experiencing substance misuse problems.
Working within a multi-disciplinary team in a custodial environment, you will be delivering a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and supporting with the Recovery Champions and mentors.
You will provide a range of psycho-social interventions, motivating and supporting service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-oriented substance misuse treatment service.
Collaborating with clinical prescribing services, you will ensure the needs of each service user are met and that integrated working is a key element of Inclusion’s prison services.
Working for our organisation
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!
For more information about HMP Leicester and our incentives offer, please see attached information.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. A summary is as follows:
* To organise a programme of group work within the establishment and to facilitate group work interventions as directed by the Line Manager.
* To accept referrals, assess need, and make appropriate prioritisation for group work attendees.
* Provide harm reduction advice, information, and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B, and C, and other blood-borne infections.
* Be responsible for maintaining an appropriate caseload with key worker responsibility.
* To carry out comprehensive assessments as required by their line manager.
* To co-produce and construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format, and manage onward referral.
* Demonstrable commitment to service user involvement and leading service user projects.
* To be involved with recruitment, management, and supervision of recovery champions and mentors, and provide them with training and regular support to further develop the lived experience network.
* To work with a range of professionals in ensuring service users’ needs in terms of safeguarding and mental health are met.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience in a Health & Social Care setting
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Qualification in a health and social care area
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