The successful applicant will empower individuals to improve their health and well-being by developing their understanding and coping strategies regarding substance misuse. Essential skills include the ability to manage challenging behaviors, provide crisis support, engage in continuous professional development, and act as a role model within the healthcare environment. Overall, this position represents an opportunity to contribute significantly to the Offender Health Team and positively impact the lives of individuals facing substance misuse challenges.
At HMP Ranby we provide a fully integrated healthcare service, delivering care to sentenced prisoners that is equivalent to that in the community.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and compassionate individual to join our team and lead our psychosocial team to offer a range of therapeutic interventions to those individuals with substance misuse issues.
We are looking for people who share our values
We are non-judgmentalWe are caringWe have integrityWe put the patient firstWe are committed to team workWe are proud to work for the NHS
This is an exciting time to be part of the Offender Health Team.
To be responsible for taking a lead role in providing effective therapeutic substance misuse recovery services.
As senior substance misuse practitioner within a multi-disciplinary team in a prison setting, you will be required to offer care to patients with complex substance misuse problems, many with co-occurring mental health issues, from the point of entry into the prison system to re-entry into the community so that re-offending is reduced and the health and social functioning of the individual is improved.
You will be expected to deliver high quality and compassionate care through appropriate assessment, formulation, implementation, and evaluation of therapeutic interventions for men with substance misuse problems working to both harm reduction and health promotion / recovery agendas.
To provide leadership to a team of staff by maintaining professional standards, ensuring adherence to all relevant policies and procedures, and to ensure the delivery of high-quality care.
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You should have in-depth theoretical knowledge and clinical experience of substance misuse and evidence based, psycho-social interventions to include harm reduction, relapse prevention and management.
It will be important to work collaboratively with the men to enable and empower them to take positive steps towards improving their health and wellbeing by developing their knowledge, insight and coping strategies about the origins of their problems to help them understand and manage their substance misuse issues.
You will need to be able to develop and maintain a programme of therapeutic interventions and support a team of Psychosocial workers to develop the appropriate skills and knowledge which will enable them to actively and meaningfully contribute to the delivery of the therapeutic programme.
You should have previous experience of working effectively within an MDT/interagency team and be able to communicate effectively with others.
It is essential that you have the skills and compassion to understand and respond appropriately to service users who present with challenging and complex behaviours. You will also need to be able to offer support in a crisis situation and have experience of working with patients who self-harm.You will need to ensure that you update mandatory training requirements are met and to have a proactive approach to self-development, working to maintain your own personal and professional development plan, appraise your own performance and discuss development needs with mentors, supervisors and line manager. You will be expected to act as a positive role model to staff and patients. Participate in and offer regular clinical and managerial supervision.
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