Prison Leaver Recovery Practitioner
6 months ago
Job Summary
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to hold a caseload working with those leaving the custodial settings, and support other tasks including assessment, duty and groups in a thriving service, making positive changes in peoples’ lives, through a non-judgmental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.
Through joining Via, you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and innovative service.
The main purpose of this role is to provide excellent quality of care to people who are leaving custodial settings and will be using our service to access treatment for substance use and their complex needs, in partnership with our clinical team, counsellors and other professionals involved in service user care.
You will have an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance use and related health and wellbeing issues.
Working as part of a dynamic team you will be responsible for managing a caseload of people, to include prescribing, providing a good quality of interventions at varying stages of their recovery as well as developing and delivering a wide range of groups.
The duties are varied, and no two days will be the same.
Please note this position is subject to Prison Vetting.
As well as a rewarding role and a diverse and inclusive team environment, check out our excellent benefits as a further reason to join our team
The Service
Adult Drug and Alcohol Services across Gloucestershire transferred to Via on 1st April 2024. The role is part of Via’s new criminal justice service structure and provides a great opportunity to build on existing service strengths, drive new developments and make a positive impact as part of this new contract.
Location
This is a county wide role, but your base will predominantly be Gloucester.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
For an informal chat about the role please contact Rae Davies, Area Manager at
The closing date for applications is Sunday 30 June at midnight.
Interviews are likely to take place on w/c 7 July.
We only accept applications via using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit . Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.
Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.
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