Substance Misuse Practitioner: HMP Fosse Way in Wigston Leicester inWigston Leicester PUBLISHED WED 6 NOV 2024 Jump to job information section

Do you want to make a real difference to the lives of those in substance-use recovery?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Substance Misuse Practitioner to join our Offender Health Care Group working at HMP Fosse Way, a Category C Resettlement Prison. HMP Fosse Way has free onsite parking as well as excellent transport links.

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced Substance Misuse practitioner to join our innovative and committed service. You will be part of a supportive team with effective management, guidance and supervision to aid your career progression, with training opportunities to develop your practice.

Your role will provide high quality patient care through assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the care for people with substance misuse problems working to both harm reduction and health promotion / recovery agendas.

Working with a caseload of often complex and challenging patients you will provide high quality, innovative substance misuse interventions, supporting patients to achieve their recovery goals and improve their health and social functioning. You will contribute to the prison's work on reducing re-offending and the wider drug strategy.

The role is both challenging and rewarding and an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of people with often complex backgrounds and needs within a prison setting.

The Substance Misuse Team is part of the Healthcare Department which also provides Mental Health and Physical Health services, all of which work together to provide an integrated Healthcare Service.

About us

The Offender Health Care Group is one of the largest and most successful providers of prison healthcare in the UK. The Care Group provide physical, mental health and substance misuse healthcare services in prisons across the East Midlands, Lincolnshire & Leicestershire.

We are committed to working in partnership with prison services, national probation service other healthcare providers and our criminal justice system partners to improve health, support justice to reduce re-offending behaviour. The Offender Health Team truly believes it can make a difference to the lives of offenders by offering consistent, high-quality care in primary, mental health and substance misuse services that are equivalent to health services delivered outside of Prison.