Recovery Support Worker

NHS Jobs; Gartree; Remote; GBP 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 4 Recovery Support Worker to deliver evidence-based interventions within the Inclusion Substance Misuse Team at HMP Gartree. You will manage a caseload and provide group work and 1:1 interventions to service users in a custodial environment.

Join a multi-disciplinary team delivering high-standard drug and alcohol recovery services, with emphasis on harm reduction, safeguarding and integrated working with clinical prescribing services.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Health & Social Care setting.
• Qualification in a health and social care area.
• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check required before employment.

Responsibilities

• Organise and facilitate group work within the establishment as directed by Line Manager.
• Accept referrals, assess needs and prioritise groupwork attendees.
• Provide harm reduction information and support (safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A/B/C).
• Maintain an appropriate caseload with key worker responsibility.
• Carry out comprehensive assessments when required by the line manager.
• Co-produce care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues and review care plans.
• Lead and support Recovery Champions and mentors; provide training and supervision.

Skills

Health & social care experience

Caseload management

Group & 1:1 interventions

Education

Health & social care qualification

Job description

This role isnot eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

An exciting opportunity has opened up within the Inclusion Substance Misuse Team at HMP Gartree.

As a band 4 Recovery Support Worker you will be delivering evidence based interventions in a group and 1:1 setting with our service users.

You will carry a case load and manage that effectively.

Main duties of the job

You will be joining a well established, hard working team who will support you in your new role. Your day to day job will be to support the men in your care through their recovery plan. This will be through the delivery of group work session and 1:1 interventions.

You will support the Under the Influence Pathway and report writing and updating case notes will be an important part of your role

You will provide a range of low, medium and high intensity interventions as part of the substance misuse team to those service users experiencing substance misuse problems.

Working within a multi-disciplinary team, in a custodial environment, you will be delivering a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation trust and supporting with the Recovery Champions and mentors.

You will provide a range of psycho-social interventions motivating and supporting service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service

Collaborating with clinical prescribing services, you will ensure the needs of each service user is met and that integrated working is a key element to Inclusion's prison services.

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! For more information about HMP Leicester and our incentives offer please see attached information.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. A summary is as follows:

• To organise programme of groupwork within the establishment and to facilitate group work interventions as directed by Line Manager.
• To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate prioritisation for groupwork attendees.
• Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne infections.
• Be responsible maintaining an appropriate caseload with key worker responsibility.
• To carry out comprehensive assessments as required by their line manager.
• To co-produce and construct care packages with multi disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
• Demonstrable commitment to service user involvement and leading service user projects.
• To be involved with recruitment, management and supervision of recovery champions and mentor and provide them with training and regular support and to further develop the lived experience network
• To work with a range of professionals in ensuring service users needs in terms of safeguarding and mental health are met.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience in a Health & Social Care setting

Qualifications

• Qualification in a health and social care area

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.