Psychosocial Recovery Worker inDerbyshire inDerbyshire PUBLISHED
MON 20 JAN 2025
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Candidates should possess experience in evidence-based psychological and psychosocial interventions, and demonstrate strong motivation and enthusiasm for working with vulnerable individuals in a challenging environment. This role presents the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of those with complex needs, guiding them towards recovery and successful reintegration into the community.
Do you want to make a real difference as Psychosocial Recovery Worker? Why not bring your compassion and skills to help support individuals in their recovery?
Our Substance Misuse Service at HMP Foston Hall, a female remand prison, is looking for a dynamic and experienced Recovery Worker to join our busy, friendly and professional team. The Substance Misuse Team is an innovative forward-thinking team, committed to a Recovery focused approach that meets individual's needs.
This is an exciting and energetic role for an individual who is passionate about providing good quality substance misuse support within a busy and rewarding environment. The variety of the role will keep things fresh and stimulating whilst being part of a supportive team with effective management providing supervision and guidance
To provide a range of low, medium and high intensity interventions to our service users experiencing substance misuse problems.
To work within a multi-disciplinary team, in a custodial environment delivering a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
To provide a range of psycho-social interventions motivating and supporting service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service
To work in collaboration with clinical prescribing services to ensure the needs of each service user is met and that integrated working is a key element to Inclusion's prison services.
To provide 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 contribute to and work within the prison and wider drug strategy.
About us
This is an opportunity to work with individuals who have complex offending backgrounds and mental health needs. Working in prisons can be challenging as well as rewarding and this opportunity is a fantastic chance to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are often disadvantaged and vulnerable.
- You will be able to demonstrate skill and experience of providing evidence based psychological / psychosocial interventions geared towards supporting service users to make positive changes and work towards recovery.
- You will be highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire.
- You will be enthusiastic about working within an ever-changing prison environment.
- You will work in a fully multi-disciplinary team to provide varied and comprehensive interventions in-line with the stepped care model.
- You will work to assist service users to progress through their sentence and onto their resettlement in the community.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for the full list of responsibilities.
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