Psychosocial Lead

Inclusion; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in the East Midlands seeks a Band 6 Psychosocial Lead for the Psychosocial Substance Misuse Team at HMP Gartree. The role involves leading recovery practitioners, managing complex caseloads, and overseeing psychosocial interventions for inmates. Ideal candidates will have a professional qualification and significant experience in substance misuse settings. This position offers opportunities for professional development and a commitment to the wellbeing of both staff and service users.

Benefits

In-house training and coaching support

Well-being and lifestyle support

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in substance misuse teams, preferably in secure settings.
• Experience managing a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Lead recovery practitioners and manage service user caseloads.
• Conduct assessments and create care plans for individuals.
• Ensure high standards of drug and alcohol recovery services.

Skills

Substance misuse understanding

Team management

Psychosocial interventions

Education

Professional Qualification (Degree and Post Graduation or equivalent)

Job description

A fantastic opportunity has become open for a Band 6 Psychosocial Lead in the Psychosocial Substance Misuse Team at HMP Gartree.

This is a Category B Mail High Security Jail. The band 6 will lead the direction of the service as well as supporting the patients with their recovery.

As the Psychosocial Lead within the teams, you will work alongside the Team Manager and will manage and supervise Band 5 Recovery Workers. You will have a deep understanding of substance misuse and delivering effective treatment pathways. You will also lead on Psychosocial Interventions within the team and take an active role in the prisons' Drug Strategy whilst fostering effective working relationships key stakeholders. You will need to be confident in managing a caseload of people with complex needs and offer supervision, support and guidance to other members of the team.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the job include:

• Support and lead the recovery practitioners
• Complete supervisions and appraisals
• Conduct assessments and care plans, carry a case load - support men through their care plan objectives by delivering substance misuse related psychosocial group and 1:1 interventions
• Attend / lead meetings
• Work closely with partners
• Adhere to reporting targets
• Build / Maintain links prison partner

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University 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!

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. Here is a summary:

• To manage a multi-disciplinary team, in a custodial environment ensuring a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service is delivered in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and MPFT.
• Ensure a full range of psychosocial interventions that motivate and support service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service.
• To be responsible for the provision of a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psycho-social interventions) to problem drug and alcohol users located within the prison establishment.
• To effectively supervise liaison and develop links with partner agencies to provide a through-care service for prisoners from the point of entry into the prison system to release into the community so that re-offending is reduced and the health, well-being and social functioning of Service User is improved.
• To contribute and work within the prison and wider drug strategy.
• To be responsible for implementing Inclusion policies, protocols, SOPs and developing LOPs in conjunction with the clinical prescribing team and mental health team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification (Degree and Post Graduation or equivalent) and/or Relevant experience in comparative setting inclusive of management experience.

Experience

• Considerable experience of working within a substance misuse team, ideally in a secure setting
• Experience of managing multidisciplinary team.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.