Psychosocial Recovery Worker
Job Description
Job summary
Do you want to make a real difference as a Substance Misuse Psychosocial Recovery Worker? Do you have 12 months of experience working with people with Substance misuse needs? Why not bring your compassion and skills to help support people in their recovery?
Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Service at HMP Dovegate is looking for a dynamic and experienced Substance Misuse Recovery Worker. The team is innovative, forward thinking and committed to a Recovery focused approach that meets people's needs. You will be part of a supportive team with effective management, supervision and guidance.
Working with people who have complex offending backgrounds, substance misuse and mental health needs within prison is both challenging and rewarding. This is a fantastic chance to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are often disadvantaged and vulnerable.
Are you:o Passionate about providing high quality substance misuse Interventions, care and support?o Skilled and experienced in providing evidence based psychosocial structuredinterventions geared towards supporting people to make positive changes and work towards recovery from drug and alcohol use?o highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire?o able to apply your skills/interventions to the care of people with mild to moderate mental health needs that often co-exist with substance misuse needs.then we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
To provide a range of low, medium and high intensity psychosocial substance misuse interventions as part of the Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Team to those people experiencing substance misuse problems.
To work in a custodial environment delivering a high quality drug and alcohol recovery service in response to need.
To provide a range of psycho-social interventions motivating and supporting peopleto achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service
To work in collaboration with clinical prescribing services to ensure the needs of each service user is met.
To provide a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recoveryplanning, casework coordination and psycho-social interventions) to people located within the prison establishment
About us
Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership 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, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation 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 Dovegate and our incentives offer please see the attached information.
Job responsibilities
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn
This is an opportunity to work with individuals who have complex offending backgrounds and mental health needs. Working in prisons can be challenging as well as rewarding and this opportunity is a fantastic chance to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are often disadvantaged and vulnerable.
You will be able to demonstrate skill and experience of providing evidence based psychological / psychosocial interventions geared towards supporting service users to make positive changes and work towards recovery. You will be highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire. You will be enthusiastic about working within an ever-changing prison environment. You will work in a fully multi-disciplinary team to provide varied and comprehensive interventions in-line with the stepped care model. You will work to assist service users to progress through their sentence and onto their resettlement in the community.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for the full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ 3 Health and Social Care (or commitment to work towards) and/or relevant experience in a comparable setting.
Desirable
- Relevant training/qualification in associated field ie, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Brief solution focussed therapy, Mapping techniques, Auricular acupuncture trained, SMART Recovery
Experience
Essential
- Experience of integrated working practices.
- 12 months minimum experience of working with substance users
- Experience of group facilitation.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Inclusion
Address
HMP Dovegate
Uttoxeter
Staffordshire
ST14 8XR
United Kingdom
