Substance Misuse Recovery Practitioner

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

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the East Midlands is seeking a full-time Substance Misuse Practitioner to join its Inclusion team at HMP Stocken. The role involves supporting male prisoners in their recovery from substance misuse through psychosocial treatment and interventions. Candidates should have experience in a support role and a commitment to obtaining NVQ 3 in Health & Social Care. This position offers a dynamic environment with supervision and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support

In-house training and coaching

Qualifications

• Must have previous experience working within a recovery worker or support role.
• Commitment to work towards NVQ 3 Health & Social Care if not already obtained.
• Desirable to have training in CBT, Motivational Interviewing, or Brief solution-focused therapy.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a recovery-oriented service focusing on high standards and good practice.
• Work within an integrated team to provide psycho-social interventions.
• Encourage prisoners into treatment following failed urine tests.

Skills

Psycho-social interventions

CBT-based group work

Motivational interviewing

Communication skills

Education

NVQ 3 Health & Social Care

Relevant training in associated fields

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has become available within the Inclusion substance misuse team at HMP Stocken. We are recruiting for a full time band 5 Substance Misuse Practitioner. Join a busy, vibrant team supporting men with recovery from substances at HMP Stocken. You will be working with a caseload of men, supporting them through psychosocial treatment for their substance misuse. HMP Stocken is a male Cat C prison and the Inclusion SMS team support the population by offering support for drug/alcohol issues. This is an energetic role for an individual who is passionate about providing good quality substance misuse support within a busy and rewarding environment. The role includes variety, with supervision and guidance from a supportive management team.

Main duties

As part of the Inclusion Substance Misuse Team you would hold a caseload of service users and appropriately manage your time to support their pathway through treatment, building care plans to support the service users throughout their journey. Your main duties will include:

• Delivering a steps-based, recovery orientated and outcome-focused service within the host prison with emphasis on high standards and good practice.
• Working within an integrated team delivering psycho-social interventions to service users presenting with substance misuse issues, including alcohol.
• Participating in activities designed to enhance the service such as clinical supervision and P.D.C. reviews, needs analysis, service user forums, and maintaining up-to-date training.
• Supporting and facilitating longer term psycho-social, CBT-based group work requiring multiple session delivery.
• Working with prisoners who have failed mandatory and voluntary urine tests and actively encouraging them into treatment to engage in their recovery journey.
• Providing structured interventions in accordance with the needs identified on an individual basis, in line with goals identified and agreed on the recovery plan.

Working for our organisation

Inclusion, created in 2002, is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership 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 affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for sexual health. We believe that individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising the benefits of a modern NHS organisation. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes. We invest in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users, is central to who we are. MPFT offers comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support, in addition to in-house training and coaching. 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 about HMP Stocken and our incentives offer please see attached information.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. A summary is 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 interventions to service users presenting with substance misuse issues, including alcohol
• To participate in activities designed to enhance the service such as clinical supervision and P.D.C. reviews, needs analysis, service user forums, increasing personal knowledge and remaining up to date with training
• To support and facilitate longer term psycho-social, CBT based group work requiring multiple session delivery.
• To work with prisoners who have failed mandatory and voluntary urine tests and actively encourage them into treatment to engage in their recovery journey.
• To provide structured interventions in accordance with the needs identified on an individual basis, in line with the goals identified and agreed on the recovery plan.

Person specification

Qualifications
Essential criteria

• NVQ 3 Health & Social Care (or commitment to work towards) And/Or Relevant experience in comparable setting.

Desirable criteria

• Relevant training / Qualification in associated field such as CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Brief solution focussed therapy, Mapping techniques, Auricular acupuncture trained

Experience

Essential criteria

• Previous experience working within a recovery worker or support role