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Recovery Worker

1 month ago

Lichfield, United Kingdom Inclusion Full time

Job summary

Do you want to make a real difference as a Substance Misuse PsychosocialRecovery Worker? Do you have 12 months of experience working with peoplewith Substance misuse needs? Why not bring your compassion and skills tohelp support people in their recovery?Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Service at HMP Dovegate islooking for a dynamic and experienced Substance Misuse Recovery Worker. Theteam is innovative, forward thinking and committed to a Recovery focused approachthat meets people's needs. You will be part of a supportive team with effectivemanagement, supervision and guidance.Working with people who have complex offending backgrounds, substance misuseand mental health needs within prison is both challenging and rewarding. This is afantastic chance to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are oftendisadvantaged and you:o Passionate about providing high quality substance misuse Interventions, careand support?o Skilled and experienced in providing evidence based psychosocial structuredinterventions geared towards supporting people to make positive changesand 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 tomoderate mental health needs that often co-exist with substance 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 description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for the full list ofresponsibilities: Working as part of the team you will provide varied and comprehensiveinterventions in-line with the stepped care model. Working in partnership with key agencies to ensure service users aresupported on their individual recovery journeys. Delivering the substance misuse and wellbeing elements of the integratedoffender team. Facilitating further details about this role and opportunity or to arrange an informal visit contact Sarah Rowley

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.

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