Substance Misuse

At HMP Leicester we provide a fully integrated healthcare service, delivering care to offenders and individuals on remand that is equivalent to that in the community.

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and compassionate individual to join our team of recovery workers to offer a range of therapeutic interventions to those individuals with substance misuse issues.

We would like you to be part of the Offender Health Team.

To be provide effective therapeutic substance misuse recovery services at HMP Leicester.

To work within a multi-disciplinary team in a prison setting, you will be required to offer care to patients with complex substance misuse problems, from the point of entry into the prison system to re-entry into the community so that re-offending is reduced and the health and social functioning of prisoners is improved.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

You will be expected to deliver high quality and compassionate care through appropriate assessment, implementation, and evaluation of therapeutic interventions for men with substance misuse problems working to both harm reduction and health promotion / recovery agenda.

To maintain professional standards, ensuring adherence to all relevant policies and procedures to ensure the delivery of high-quality care

You should have knowledge of substance misuse and evidence based, psycho-social interventions to include harm reduction, relapse prevention

It will be important to enable and empower men to take positive steps towards improving their health and wellbeing by developing strategies to manage their substance misuse issues.

You will work as part of a team of recovery workers to deliver a programme of therapeutic interventions.

You should have previous experience of working effectively within an MDT/interagency team and be able to communicate effectively with others.

It is essential that you have the skills to respond appropriately to service users who present with challenging and complex behaviours and be able to offer support in a crisis situation and have experience of working with patients who self-harm.

You will need to ensure that you update mandatory training requirements are met and to have a proactive approach to self-development, working to maintain your own personal and professional development plan, appraise your own performance and discuss development needs with mentors, supervisors and line manager. You will be expected to act as a positive role model.

Participate in and offer regular clinical and managerial supervision