Criminal Justice Recovery Practitioner

TN United Kingdom; Kingston upon Thames; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established community service is seeking a dedicated Criminal Justice Recovery Practitioner to enhance care continuity for clients post-release. This role involves case management within probation offices, requiring a compassionate approach to engage clients facing challenging issues. Join a supportive team that values diversity and offers generous benefits, including 30 days of annual leave. If you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of individuals struggling with substance misuse, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

30 Days Annual Leave

Health and Wellbeing Initiatives

Financial Perks

Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in substance misuse and criminal justice settings.
• Ability to assess client needs and deliver interventions.

Responsibilities

• Assess client needs and deliver effective interventions.
• Work closely with criminal justice and partner agencies.

Skills

Substance Misuse Knowledge

Criminal Justice Knowledge

Case Management

Empathy

Intervention Delivery

Education

Health and Social Care Qualification

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Client:

Via Westminster Drug Project

Location:

Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

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Job Summary

The Role

You will have experience of working within substance misuse and have criminal justice knowledge or a related Health and Social Care setting. This role will be co-located within probation offices as part of Dependence and Recovery to improve continuity of care upon release from prison, you will case manage clients on probation alongside Probation Practitioners.

The role will require you to:

• assess the needs of clients.
• deliver effective interventions.
• work closely with our criminal justice and other partner agencies.

An empathetic and non-judgemental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours, and many difficult to engage clients.

The Service

Via Kingston is an established, integrated community service that delivers provision for the Borough. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial elements and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV and health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as having family and carers and service user involvement provision.

Together we offer a wide range of pharmacological, psychosocial, recovery-orientated, health focused and inpatient interventions that support individuals and their families who wish to receive advice, assessment, and treatment for their drug and/ or alcohol related needs.

Via Kingston is an established community service that is well performing and highly functioning. We are a friendly team of professionals who support each other. The service operates Mon- Fri, our core hours 9am to 5pm but there are times where we might need to work occasional evenings or weekends.

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 ourBenefits Package

For an informal chat about the role please contact Anil Chatterjee, Criminal Justice Team Manager via or 07561 105350 / 0300 303 4614.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 30 June at midnight.

Interviews are likely to take place on Friday 5 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.