Impactful Prison Substance Misuse Recovery Worker

Practice Plus Group; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Induction training and development

Career development opportunities

Learning Management System support

Job summary

Practice Plus Group’s Health in Justice team at HMP Doncaster is seeking a Bank Substance Misuse Recovery Worker to support prisoners in their recovery journey, delivering psychosocial interventions and assessments.

You will manage a caseload, triage new admissions with reception, run group sessions on overdose awareness and harm reduction, and help prepare patients for release, with shifts 8am–4pm and an hourly rate of £15.80 in a busy Category B remand prison.

Qualifications

• Have experience within Substance misuse, ideally in a prison/secure environment, and ideally within a Recovery Worker/Practitioner role.
• Have experience of working within the substance misuse multi-disciplinary framework, which includes housing, social care, health care and mental health pathways
• Have experience of managing a caseload
• Have a flexible approach, and excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of psychosocial patients with varying needs, including substance misuse, mental health, trauma etc
• Work with receptions (new patients entering the prison), triaging and carrying out assessments
• Deliver group sessions on overdose awareness, harm reduction, motivation to change, relapse prevention and wellbeing
• Providing a programme of psychosocial interventions and comprehensive assessments, including SMART Recovery
• Facilitate peer led group sessions
• Provide information and advice on substance misuse, alcohol, smoking cessation, blood borne viruses and safe sex practices
• Prepare patients for release and transfer
• Work closely with MDT professionals, including within the prison and the community, such as probation, external drug & alcohol services etc

Skills

Substance misuse experience

Prison/secure environment

Recovery Worker/Practitioner

Caseload management

Excellent communication

Job description

Practice Plus Group’s Health in Justice team at HMP Doncaster is seeking a Bank Substance Misuse Recovery Worker to support prisoners in their recovery journey, delivering psychosocial interventions and assessments.

You will manage a caseload, triage new admissions with reception, run group sessions on overdose awareness and harm reduction, and help prepare patients for release, with shifts 8am–4pm and an hourly rate of £15.80 in a busy Category B remand prison.