Psychosocial Lead

Job Overview
A fantastic opportunity has become open for a Band 6 Psychosocial Lead secondment in the Psychosocial Substance Misuse Team at HMP Hewell.
Main duties of the job

The Main Duties Of The Job Include

• Support and lead the recovery practitioners
• Complete supervisions and appraisals
• Conduct assessments and care plans, carry a case load – support men through their care plan objectives by delivering substance misuse related psychosocial group and 1:1 interventions
• Attend / lead meetings
• Work closely with partners
• Adhere to reporting targets
• Build / Maintain links prison partner

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, 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

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. Here is a summary:

• To manage a multi-disciplinary team, in a custodial environment ensuring a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service is delivered in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and MPFT.
• Ensure a full range of psychosocial interventions that motivate and support service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service.
• To be responsible for the provision of a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psycho-social interventions) to problem drug and alcohol users located within the prison establishment.
• To effectively supervise liaison and develop links with partner agencies to provide a through-care service for prisoners from the point of entry into the prison system to release into the community so that re-offending is reduced and the health, well-being and social functioning of Service User is improved.
• To contribute and work within the prison and wider drug strategy.
• To be responsible for implementing Inclusion policies, protocols, SOP's and developing LOP's in conjunction with the clinical prescribing team and mental health team.

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Professional Qualification ( Degree & Post graduation or equivalent)

Experience
Essential criteria

• Relevant experience in comparative setting inclusive of management experience