Psychosocial Recovery Worker

The Methodist Church in Britain; West Midlands; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & development

In-house coaching

Wellbeing & lifestyle support

Supportive team

Job summary

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Psychosocial Recovery Worker to support inmates with substance misuse needs within a secure environment. The role focuses on psychosocial interventions, recovery planning and coordinated care in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team.

You will deliver recovery services, run group sessions and work alongside clinical prescribing services to ensure integrated care and positive outcomes for service users.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 Health and Social Care or commitment to work towards it.
• Experience in a comparable setting in health and social care.
• Experience with integrated working practices and group facilitation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver psychosocial interventions to substance-misusing offenders in prison.
• Provide a recovery service covering assessment, recovery planning and casework coordination.
• Work with key agencies to support service users on recovery journeys.
• Deliver substance misuse and wellbeing elements of the integrated offender team.
• Facilitate groups and work within a multidisciplinary team in custody.
• Motivate service users towards recovery and positive outcomes.
• Collaborate with clinical prescribing services to meet service user needs.
• Contribute to prison and wider drug strategy.

Skills

Integrated working

Experience with substance users

Group facilitation

Substance misuse services

Education

NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care

Commitment to progression to Level 3

Job description

This Psychosocial Recovery Worker post sits within the Integrated Substance Misuse & Mental Health Service at HMP Oakwood, run by Inclusion, part of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. The work centres on delivering psychosocial interventions and recovery planning for people with substance misuse needs, alongside wider integrated offender team work and group facilitation. It is based in a prison, with people who often have complex offending histories and co-existing mental health needs, and works alongside clinical prescribing services. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

What the job involves

• Deliver a range of psychosocial interventions to substance-misusing offenders in prison
• Provide a recovery service covering assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psychosocial interventions for problem drug and alcohol users in the prison
• Work in partnership with key agencies to support service users on their individual recovery journeys
• Deliver the substance misuse and wellbeing elements of the integrated offender team
• Facilitate groups
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team in a custodial environment
• Motivate and support service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes in a recovery-orientated treatment service
• Work with clinical prescribing services to meet each service user's needs and keep integrated working central to the prison services
• Contribute to and work within the prison and wider drug strategy

What’s required

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 Health and Social Care, or commitment to work towards it, and/or relevant experience in a comparable setting

Experience

• Experience of integrated working practices
• At least 12 months' experience of working with substance users
• Experience of group facilitation
• Experience and understanding of working within substance misuse services

Checks & eligibility

• Right to work in the UK without visa sponsorship

Nice to have

• Relevant training or qualification in an associated field
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) training
• Motivational interviewing training
• Brief solution focused therapy training
• Mapping techniques training
• Auricular acupuncture training
• SMART Recovery training

What’s offered

• Investment in training and development
• In-house training and coaching support
• Comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer
• Supportive team with management, supervision and guidance