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Criminal Justice Recovery Practitioner, Kingston upon Thames
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Client:
Via Westminster Drug Project
Location:
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Reference:
fc572a373288
Job Views:
6
Posted:
05.05.2025
Expiry Date:
19.06.2025
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Job Description:
Job Summary
The Role
You will have experience of working within substance misuse and have criminal justice knowledge or a related Health and Social Care setting. This role will be co-located within probation offices as part of Dependence and Recovery to improve continuity of care upon release from prison, you will case manage clients on probation alongside Probation Practitioners.
The role will require you to:
* assess the needs of clients.
* deliver effective interventions.
* work closely with our criminal justice and other partner agencies.
An empathetic and non-judgemental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours, and many difficult to engage clients.
The Service
Via Kingston is an established, integrated community service that delivers provision for the Borough. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial elements and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV and health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as having family and carers and service user involvement provision.
Together we offer a wide range of pharmacological, psychosocial, recovery-orientated, health focused and inpatient interventions that support individuals and their families who wish to receive advice, assessment, and treatment for their drug and/ or alcohol related needs.
Via Kingston is an established community service that is well performing and highly functioning. We are a friendly team of professionals who support each other. The service operates Mon- Fri, our core hours 9am to 5pm but there are times where we might need to work occasional evenings or weekends.
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 ourBenefits Package
For an informal chat about the role please contact Anil Chatterjee, Criminal Justice Team Manager via or 07561 105350 / 0300 303 4614.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 30 June at midnight.
Interviews are likely to take place on Friday 5 July.
We only accept applications via using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs.For guidance on how to complete the application visit. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.
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.
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