Overview
An exciting opportunity to join HMP Grendon & Springhill as a Recovery Worker. This role involves delivering psychosocial interventions to substance-misusing offenders within a prison environment and working in partnership with key agencies to support service users on their individual recovery journeys.
Responsibilities
* Provide a range of low, medium and high intensity psychosocial and recovery-focused interventions as part of the integrated offender mental health and substance misuse team.
* Work within a multi-disciplinary team in a custodial environment to deliver a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service aligned with Inclusion and Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT).
* Provide drug and alcohol recovery services including assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psychosocial interventions for service users in the prison.
* Deliver a steps-based, recovery-oriented and outcome-focused service with emphasis on high standards and good practice.
* Work within an integrated team delivering psychosocial and clinical interventions for service users with substance misuse issues, including alcohol.
* Collaborate with clinical prescribing services to ensure needs are met and to maintain integrated working within MPFT prison services.
* Contribute to the prison and wider drug strategy and participate in the prison induction programme to engage clients.
* Use strengths-based approaches and mapping techniques to conduct initial screening assessments and subsequent recovery planning.
* Engage with mental health nurses as part of the integrated team and support service users on their recovery journeys.
About the Employer
Inclusion, created in 2002, is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). MPFT provides caring and effective services across England, including West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. MPFT supports individuals, families and communities affected by addiction, crime, mental health, or sexual health treatment needs. The organisation prioritises high-quality, inclusive care and well-being for staff and service users, with ongoing training and development opportunities.
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