Criminal Justice Continuity of Care Volunteer

3 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Humankind Charity Full time

**About the role**
Forward Leeds is the alcohol and drug service in Leeds for adults, young people, and families. Forward Leeds is delivered by 4 services in partnership, led by Humankind.
- This exciting volunteer role would best suit someone with an empathetic, non-judgmental attitude who can build strong working relationships with others. This is a fantastic opportunity to get hands on experience in a drug and alcohol service and put your passion for supporting and advocating for vulnerable people to great use.
- This role is based within the Criminal Justice team who work with individuals to manage the transition from prison to community for those whilst in prison engaging with drugs team or on prescription. We are the service that offers the mandated treatment element of court orders (drug rehabilitation requirement/alcohol treatment requirement) These are jointly managed with the Leeds Probation Service.
- The main focus of this role is to support a targeted increase the number of service users leaving prison requiring structured community treatment support for their substance/alcohol issues.
- The role will support service users at the beginning of their journey with Forward Leeds, encouraging them to access relevant appointments and to engage with structured community treatment.**Tasks will include**:

- Contact prisons to gather more information on a leaver ahead of their assessment, e.g. who is the allocated Probation Officer?
- Follow up with leavers who miss their initial assessments and support them to attend within 21 days of release
- Chasing up confirmation of medication ahead of release in order to inform prescribing decisions
- Liaising with the prison healthcare team, Probation, clinical drug and alcohol teams
- To offer information, support and guidance to people accessing the hubs
- To liaise between the service user and Reception
- Actively encourage service users into Forward Leeds
- To provide information to service users on Forward Leeds services and local services
- To support and promote a safe and recovery focused environment
- To actively listen to service users
- Invited to attend team meetings
- To promote and engage in service user influence and involvement

**Skills we would like you to bring**:

- Good IT and admin skills
- Confident telephone manner
- Organised, good time keeping
- Good recording keeping skills
- Empathetic and understanding attitude
- Non-judgmental
- Skilled at building positive and trusting working relationships
- Great listening and interpersonal skills
- Able to commit to the role on a longer-term basis in order to build relationships
- Ability to deal positively with conflict and distress
- Professional
- Honest and committed
- Able to work as part of a team, on own initiative and to instruction
- An understanding of Humankind - information is available on our website, and you can call a specific project to make enquires
- A genuine interest in being part of the mission and vision of Humankind
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries, adhere to Humankind policies, engage in supervision, and complete relevant training
- Experience working with people who have experienced trauma
- Experience of working / volunteering with adults at risk / with support needs related to accommodation and / or drug/alcohol use

We ask that you can commit to at least half a day for a minimum of 6 months. The Forward Leeds service is open from Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.**Our workplace values are**:

- Honest: we are open and realistic, building trusted relationships in which we challenge, collaborate and change.
- Committed: we are passionate about being the best that we can be, and we do this by keeping people at the heart of everything that we do.
- Inventive: we are ambitious, drawing together skills and resources to innovate and adapt in determined pursuit of our mission.

**What Volunteers can expect from us**:

- Regular supervision and support
- Induction and access to online and face to face training
- To learn and practice new skills within a teamwork setting
- To feel part of a team and the wider Humankind organisation
- Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed with proof of journey

Opportunities to progress and experience other areas of Humankind's work in the region
- **What can Humankind offer you?**
- ️ Happy, Healthy You - our wellbeing offers for our workforce

Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks**Humankind is an equal opportunities employer**
If you feel that you would fit with our values & ethos, are passionate about supporting people, but maybe don’t feel you have the experience required, talk to us about your transferrable skills. For the right people, we can provide development to help you to realise your potential.-
**Salary Period**
- Per Annum

**Vacancy Salary Range**
- 0

**DBS Requirement**
- Volunteer Enhanced

**Driving licence required for role?**
- No

**Applications Close Date**
- 05 Apr 2023



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