Recovery Practitioner

**Role: Recovery Practitioner - Criminal Justice and Substance Misuse**
**Organisation**:Support When It Matters (SWIM)
**Hours**:35 hours per week
**Job Type: Fixed Term for 12 Months - possible extension funding dependent.**
**Location: Camden and Islington**
**Salary: up to **£25,000

**The Organisation: SWIM**

**Who We Are.**

Support When It Matters Enterprise CIC (SWIM) is an African/Caribbean led Hackney-based social enterprise focused on improving mental health and well-being and criminal justice outcomes for African/Caribbean and other minoritised communities.

Our expertise is in delivering culturally informed psycho-social interventions to individuals and groups experiencing discrimination and exclusion, helping them make positive changes in their lives through better access to services such as substance misuse or mental health support. We deliver programmes to reduce re-offending and substance misuse, along with housing and employment.

Our approach is embedded in hope, compassion and unconditional positive regard while facilitating and supporting personal responsibility and commitment to change. Our programmes and service areas actively support participants to examine culture, and belief systems, acknowledge hardships and build the motivation and resilience to work towards positive goals and aspirations.

SWIM is commissioned by Local Authorities, Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and other commissioners to support people from African/Caribbean heritage and other minoritised communities to overcome their challenges and go on to lead meaningful lives.

Through our consultancy and outreach work, we also support local health and mental health services to design more culturally informed approaches that reduce the reticence to engage and reduce mistrust among many ethnic minority communities.

**Our Values**

We expect our employees to demonstrate our values every day:

- SWIM is culturally informed - Our differentiator is our understanding of the values and traditions of our ethnic minority communities, which is reflected in our service approach
- SWIM does things the right way - We take pride in our work, and we respect our clients and the communities they represent.
- SWIM is bold - we encourage initiative and support innovative ideas backed by sound planning and execution.
- SWIM is easy to work with - we are open, straightforward, and constructive in our dealings.
- SWIM learns - we develop our people and constantly improve by sharing knowledge and skills.

**The Role**

As a Recovery Practitioner you will manage a caseload of clients, providing advice and support to people with substance misuse issues who may also be experiencing mental health and personality disorders challenges along with criminal justice. your role will be to improve their health and well-being. The focus will be on psychosocial interventions, group work as well as linking clients to specialist agencies, such as substance misuse, mental health services, welfare rights, advocacy, medical and legal services as appropriate.

The service is delivered in partnership with the police, substance misuse providers, probation and there is a focus on partnership working throughout the service. As a front line worker you’ll have the chance to make a real difference to the lives of the people we support.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To undertake the full range of offender management tasks with offenders assessed at all levels of risk of serious harm including high and very high.
- To provide professional advice and assessment, including written reports to courts, the Parole Board, other criminal justice agencies and partner organisations.
- To use computer-based systems to produce, update and maintain records and other documentation within agreed timescales.
- To ensure timely and effective referrals to, and relationships between, offender management, court teams, victim contact units, interventions, approved premises, prisons, and external agencies to enhance positive outcomes, manage risk and reduce reoffending.
- To attend professional meetings and represent the NPS at appropriate partnership forums e.g. MAPPA, MARAC.
- To work collaboratively with colleagues, maintain effective team relationships and provide professional guidance and support to Probation Services Officer (PSOs) and other staff as appropriate.
- To undertake prison, home or other alternate location visits as required.
- Respond to risk escalation requests and determine risk level and if high risk (endorsed by a manager) decide on how this will be managed.
- To deliver and co-lead accredited programmes commensurate with grade ensuring all safeguarding and risk management police and procedure are maintained at all time.
- Work jointly with the appointed health provider to implement and develop the PD Pathway initiative and develop a psychologically informed approach to working with people on probation with personality difficulties in each PDU.
- Commitment to customer serv