Job Summary
Are you passionate about supporting individuals transitioning from prison back into the community?
The Role
Join our dedicated team as a Prison Leaver Recovery Practitioner, where you’ll play a vital role in improving continuity of care, reducing reoffending, and empowering people on their recovery journey.
Working within a hybrid model, you’ll be part of a flexible, multi-disciplinary team supporting men and women pre- and post-release. You’ll build strong relationships with prison substance misuse teams and community services to ensure seamless transitions and sustained engagement with drug and alcohol support.
The Service
Via Harrow is an established Community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as robust family and carers and service user involvement provision.
Location
Harrow, with travel to HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Bronzefield and Willesden Magistrates courts.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
For an informal chat about the role please contact Natacha Compton, Team Leader via
The closing date for applications is Thursday 16 October at midnight.
Interviews are likely to take place on week commencing 20 October.
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Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.
Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.