Recovery Worker

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in England is seeking a compassionate Recovery Worker to provide psychosocial interventions for substance misusing offenders within prisons. Ideal candidates should have a relevant NVQ and knowledge of blood borne viruses. This challenging yet rewarding role allows you to make a positive impact in the lives of individuals facing significant challenges.

Benefits

Comprehensive wellbeing support

In-house training and coaching

Qualifications

• Knowledge of integrated working practices is essential.
• Minimum 12 months experience of working with substance users required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a range of interventions to substance misusing offenders.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team in a custodial environment.
• Provide psycho-social interventions motivating service users.

Skills

Knowledge of blood borne viruses and sexual health

Thorough knowledge of substances and their effects

Education

NVQ 3 Health and Social Care or relevant experience

Job description

Overview

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual to join our team at HMP Grendon & Springhill. We are looking for a compassionate and skilled Recovery Worker to join our team.

Working in prisons is both challenging and rewarding. This is an opportunity to work with some very interesting people with complex substance misuse needs. Working in prisons is a fantastic opportunity to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are often disadvantaged and vulnerable.

As a Recovery Worker you will be delivering a range of psychosocial interventions to substance misusing offenders within a prison environment and working in partnership with key agencies to ensure service users are supported on their individual recovery journeys.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties

• To provide a range of low, medium and high intensity interventions as part of the integrated offender mental health, substance misuse team to those service users experiencing substance misuse problems.
• To work within a multi-disciplinary team, in a custodial environment 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.
• To 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
• To work in collaboration with clinical prescribing services to ensure the needs of each service user is met and that integrated working is a key element to Inclusion’s prison services.
• To provide 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 contribute and work within the prison and wider drug strategy.

Working for our organisation

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!

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for details. A summary is provided below:

• To deliver a steps-based, recovery orientated and outcome-focussed service within the host prison with a particular emphasis on high standards and good practice.
• To work within an integrated team delivering psycho-social and clinical interventions to service users presenting with substance misuse issues, including alcohol.
• To work closely with the mental health nurses as part of an integrated team
• To participate in the prison’s induction programme, encouraging and motivating clients to engage.
• To use strengths-based approaches including mapping techniques and relevant paperwork in order to carry out initial screening assessments.
• To carry out further assessments that includes strengths-based node-link mapping techniques and recovery planning.

Person specification

Skills Essential criteria

• A knowledge of blood borne viruses and sexual health
• A thorough knowledge of substances and their effects

Qualifications Essential criteria

• NVQ 3 Health and Social Care (or commitment to work towards) and/or relevant experience in a comparable setting.

Desirable criteria

• Relevant training/qualification in associated field ie, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Brief solution focussed therapy, Mapping techniques, Auricular acupuncture trained, SMART Recovery

Experience Essential criteria

• Experience of integrated working practices.
• 12 months minimum experience of working with substance users