Recovery Worker - Peer Support Lead - HMP Wormwood Scrubs
Location: Shepherd's Bush
Salary: £28,207 per annum
About The Role
Are you passionate about empowering others, championing lived experience, and shaping meaningful change?
Join our dynamic Substance Misuse Service at HMP Wormwood Scrubs and play a key role in transforming recovery pathways for men in custody.
Working within the New Models of Care (NMOC) framework, our team delivers trauma-informed, recovery-oriented interventions that support individuals from their first days in custody through to release and resettlement. We work hand-in-hand with healthcare partners to ensure every service user receives holistic, person-centred support.
What Youll Do
As our Peer Supporter Lead, youll be the driving force behind peer-led, lived-experience initiatives across the prison. Your role will include:
1. Recruiting, training, and supervising peer supporters and mentors
2. Empowering peer supporters to deliver interventions and wellbeing initiatives across all prison wings
3. Promoting engagement in recovery pathways and strengthening service-user involvement
4. Building effective links between the substance misuse service, healthcare teams, prison staff, and service users
5. Supporting the continued development of the Peer Supporter pr...