Band 4: £26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum
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CASELOAD CRIMINAL JUSTICE MENTAL HEALTH MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
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Opportunity to make a positive impact on individuals' lives by helping them achieve a better quality of life.
Involvement in tackling complex cases associated with drug use and criminal behavior, allowing for meaningful work.
Collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team, fostering professional development and shared learning.
Provision of harm reduction strategies, including Naloxone training, which can save lives and empower clients' families.
Support for service users released from custody, aiding them in reintegration and reducing reoffending rates.
Promotion of visible recovery within the community, helping to reduce stigma and encourage others in similar situations.
Ability to build and strengthen community networks for service users, enhancing their recovery capital and support systems.
The role of "Criminal Justice Engagement Worker" in Newport with Inclusion involves supporting individuals in the criminal justice system who struggle with drug-related issues. Key responsibilities include:
- Providing assessment and support for service users upon their release from custody.
- Delivering brief interventions and facilitating harm reduction initiatives, including Naloxone training.
- Collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to foster recovery and build support networks.
- Managing day-to-day issues faced by service users and addressing barriers to engagement with services.
- Promoting recovery visibility and encouraging access to local substance misuse and mental health resources.
This full-time position is initially for a period of 6 months, focusing on empowering clients and ensuring positive recovery outcomes.
- Providing assessment and support for service users upon their release from custody.
- Delivering brief interventions and facilitating harm reduction initiatives, including Naloxone training.
- Collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to foster recovery and build support networks.
- Managing day-to-day issues faced by service users and addressing barriers to engagement with services.
- Promoting recovery visibility and encouraging access to local substance misuse and mental health resources.
This full-time position is initially for a period of 6 months, focusing on empowering clients and ensuring positive recovery outcomes.
Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life? Do you have an interest in tackling complex or challenging cases, whilst supporting people to reduce drug related harm and offending?
We are currently recruiting for an experienced worker to join our criminal justice team within the Isle of Wight. This post is aimed at providing assessment and support for people who are part of the criminal justice system, who also experience difficulties associated with drug use.
You will be offering caseload support to the current Criminal Justice Worker and offering information and advice to people who access the service.
Job Description subject to change.
Full Time Criminal Justice Engagement Worker post, for a period of 6 months.
- o Work as an integral part of the service in delivering high quality brief interventions to Service Users within the criminal justice system o Work with and support the Inclusion multi-disciplinary team o Facilitate harm reduction interventions including the delivery of Naloxone training to clients, families and partnershipso Supporting service users who are released from custody, as well as supporting service users digitally who are released from other prisons o Contributing to service users working collaboratively to build their recovery capital and ensuring positive recovery outcomes.o Ensuring service users have scheduled appointments and remove barriers to attendance.o Promoting visible recovery to clients within the criminal justice system
About us
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below:
- To deliver effective brief interventions
- To work with service users in attendance and manage day today issues which arise upon release from custody or prisons etc
- To signpost to local services and empower service users to build their community networks and recovery capital.
- To promote visible and contagious recovery to service users within the criminal justice systems.
- To work collaboratively with all service users/partner agencies/stakeholders to identify the barriers that prevent people from all communities accessing a full range of services, including substance misuse mental health wellbeing and primary mental health services.
- Engage service users into treatment and through their Recovery Journey
- Complete screening and asset based mapping to identify appropriate recovery focused interventions.
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