Psychosocial Lead inLeicestershire inLeicestershire PUBLISHED 13 NOV 2024
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A fantastic opportunity has become open for a Band 6 Psychosocial Lead in the Psychosocial Substance Misuse Team at HMP Gartree.
This is a Category B Mail High Security Jail. The band 6 will lead the direction of the service as well as supporting the patients with their recovery.
As the Psychosocial Lead within the teams, you will work alongside the Team Manager and will manage and supervise Band 5 Recovery Workers. You will have a deep understanding of substance misuse and delivering effective treatment pathways. You will also lead on Psychosocial Interventions within the team and take an active role in the prisons' Drug Strategy whilst fostering effective working relationships key stakeholders. You will need to be confident in managing a caseload of people with complex needs and offer supervision, support and guidance to other members of the team.
The main duties of the job include:
- Support and lead the recovery practitioners
- Complete supervisions and appraisals
- Conduct assessments and care plans, carry a case load - support men through their care plan objectives by delivering substance misuse related psychosocial group and 1:1 interventions
- Attend / lead meetings
- Work closely with partners
- Adhere to reporting targets
- Build / Maintain links prison partner
Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. Here is a summary:
- To manage a multi-disciplinary team, in a custodial environment ensuring a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service is delivered in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and MPFT.
- Ensure a full range of psychosocial interventions that motivate and support service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service.
- To be responsible for the provision of a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psycho-social interventions) to problem drug and alcohol users located within the prison establishment.
- To effectively supervise liaison and develop links with partner agencies to provide a through-care service for prisoners from the point of entry into the prison system to release into the community so that re-offending is reduced and the health, well-being and social functioning of Service User is improved.
- To contribute and work within the prison and wider drug strategy.
- To be responsible for implementing Inclusion policies, protocols, SOPs and developing LOPs in conjunction with the clinical prescribing team and mental health team.
A fantastic opportunity has become open for a Band 6 Psychosocial Lead in the Psychosocial Substance Misuse Team at HMP Gartree.
This is a Category B Mail High Security Jail. The band 6 will lead the direction of the service as well as supporting the patients with their recovery.
As the Psychosocial Lead within the teams, you will work alongside the Team Manager and will manage and supervise Band 5 Recovery Workers. You will have a deep understanding of substance misuse and delivering effective treatment pathways. You will also lead on Psychosocial Interventions within the team and take an active role in the prisons' Drug Strategy whilst fostering effective working relationships key stakeholders. You will need to be confident in managing a caseload of people with complex needs and offer supervision, support and guidance to other members of the team.
The main duties of the job include:
- Support and lead the recovery practitioners
- Complete supervisions and appraisals
- Conduct assessments and care plans, carry a case load - support men through their care plan objectives by delivering substance misuse related psychosocial group and 1:1 interventions
- Attend / lead meetings
- Work closely with partners
- Adhere to reporting targets
- Build / Maintain links prison partner
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Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. Here is a summary:
- To manage a multi-disciplinary team, in a custodial environment ensuring a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service is delivered in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and MPFT.
- Ensure a full range of psychosocial interventions that motivate and support service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service.
- To be responsible for the provision of a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psycho-social interventions) to problem drug and alcohol users located within the prison establishment.
- To effectively supervise liaison and develop links with partner agencies to provide a through-care service for prisoners from the point of entry into the prison system to release into the community so that re-offending is reduced and the health, well-being and social functioning of Service User is improved.
- To contribute and work within the prison and wider drug strategy.
- To be responsible for implementing Inclusion policies, protocols, SOPs and developing LOPs in conjunction with the clinical prescribing team and mental health team.
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