Recovery Navigator in London)

Ad Warrior Ltd; London; Hybrid; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a compassionate Recovery Navigator to join their team in London. This role focuses on empowering individuals in the criminal justice system to overcome addiction and reintegrate into society. As a Recovery Navigator, you will provide essential support and advocacy, working closely with clients to develop personalized action plans and deliver impactful interventions. You'll engage with a diverse caseload, ensuring each individual receives the guidance they need to achieve lasting change. If you're passionate about making a difference and have a background in substance misuse or criminal justice, this is an incredible opportunity to contribute to meaningful transformation.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in criminal justice and substance misuse.
• Ability to manage high caseloads and conduct comprehensive assessments.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals on probation in navigating their recovery journey.
• Deliver one-on-one and group interventions to empower clients.

Skills

Knowledge of criminal justice sector

Experience in substance misuse field

Managing high caseloads

Risk assessments

Delivering group-work interventions

Strong communication skills

Job description

Recovery Navigator

Location: London

Salary: £25,154 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

We are recruiting for a Recovery Navigator in Hammersmith & Fulham, Westminster.

We are Forward, the social enterprise that empowers people to break the cycle of crime and addiction to move forward and live fulfilling lives.

We deliver a range of MOJ Commissioned Rehabilitative services (CRS) directly for Probation in three key areas: Accommodation, Personal Wellbeing and Dependency & Recovery. Accommodation is delivered in Wales, Dependency and Recovery in London and Humberside, Personal Wellbeing in East of England, Sussex, Surrey and as a subcontractor in Kent and Cheshire.

These services work with Men 18+ who are under probation supervision, supporting them to navigate through their desired outcomes in order to achieve transformational change, break the cycle of offending and achieve long-term integration into society.

Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends, and a sense of community. No matter what your past, we believe anyone is capable of lasting change.

Roles Responsibilities

As a Recovery Navigator in the London Dependency and Recovery Service, you will be working within a hybrid model as part of a flexible, multi-disciplinary team, travelling across the probation delivery units in the boroughs of: Ealing & Hillingdon, Brent, Hammersmith & Fulham and Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster. This is an in-person service, and you will be expected to work day-to-day from the locations mentioned above.

The service is designed to improve engagement of Person(s) on Probation into treatment services and 'bridge the gap' between probation and substance misuse services in the community by offering practical assistance and ongoing support through a range of timebound, enforceable and motivational interventions.

You will carry a diverse caseload of adult male prison leavers and those on community orders within the National Probation Service, supporting them to implement their action plan and navigate their recovery journey. You will be responsible for completing comprehensive assessments, creating a collaborative action plan and delivering one to one, group work/virtual sessions, whilst maintaining accurate record keeping throughout.

Your role is to successfully navigate these men on their recovery journey by providing:

1. Support and advocacy: including physical help with referral forms, face-to-face negotiations with a wide range of other providers, attending appointments with them or taking steps on their behalf, for example making phone-calls and onward referrals.
2. Advice, guidance and information: Information via a variety of forms (including printed documents, one to one session, group session, online session or a combination of any of the above) but must be provided in a way that enables the Person(s) on Probation to act on the information given and should form part of a wider package of support offered.
3. Deliver interventions: to empower and upskill Person(s) on Probation to enable understanding and management of their Dependency and Recovery needs.

Some degree of flexibility may be required if out of office work is required, but this is a predominantly a Monday - Friday 09:00-17:00 role.

All probation-based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 8-12 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.

Checks will require you to provide information on the below:

1. Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
2. Your family (parents, parents' partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
3. Co-residents
4. Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
5. Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
6. Credit reference checks
7. Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that's publicly available on the internet to ensure there's nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
8. Other government and overseas agency or police checks.

The Ideal Candidate

Please see below a list of skills and experience needed for this role.

1. Knowledge and experience of the criminal justice sector.
2. Excellent experience of substance misuse field and/or experience of working in a related field or similar field.
3. Demonstrable experience of managing high caseloads, carrying out risk/comprehensive assessments, SMART action plans and effective case records.
4. Experience of delivering both 1:1 and group-work interventions using motivational techniques and trauma informed approaches.
5. Experience of working with treatment and/or healthcare services.
6. The ability to set and stick to professional boundaries.
7. Ability to work effectively with key partners in order to successfully deliver outcomes.
8. Demonstrate the ability to organise workload, ensuring effective time management and prioritisation to meet targets.
9. Understanding of, and commitment to, the principles of equal opportunity and GDPR requirements including client confidentiality.
10. Experience of strong communication skills with people from a range of backgrounds in a sensitive, supportive and professional manner.

To Apply

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