QR code linking to this job posting *INTERNAL MPFT APPLICANTS ONLY* Specialist CJ Worker in Tamworth inTamworth PUBLISHED FRI 23 MAY 2025

Band 5: £29,970 to £36,483 a year per annum  PERMANENT  GOOD SALARY   NO SPONSORSHIP 

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**INTERNAL MPFT APPLICANTS ONLY**
We are looking for a dynamic and motivated Criminal Justice Engagement Worker to join our team, working with individuals within the criminal justice system to deliver high-quality, evidence-based interventions. This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible difference by addressing substance misuse and supporting individuals on their journey to recovery.
In this role, you will engage with service users across Custody Suites, Prisons, and Probation services, facilitating harm reduction initiatives, promoting visible recovery, and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to achieve positive outcomes. Your work will focus on reducing drug and alcohol-related harm, building recovery capital, and ensuring continuity of care through scheduled appointments and partnership working.
This position is ideal for someone passionate about making a difference in the lives of vulnerable individuals while contributing to a safer and healthier community.
  • Provision of drug & alcohol treatment to Service Users who are engaged in the criminal justice system within the locality.
  • Provide in reach to a range of criminal justice settings to engage offenders in drug treatment
  • Holding a caseload of service users and being responsible for offering a range of interventions to those individuals.
  • Supporting service users through their treatment journey
  • Engaging service users with wider Inclusion Community Services as suitable
  • Embracing the concept of recovery and demonstrating this in your clinical work
  • Ensuring that your work is evidence based, up to date and in accordance with current policy and legislation.

About us
Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. Here is a summary:
  • 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.
  • To create and maintain a local Recovery Assets Register suitable for service users within the criminal justice systems
  • Ensure all clients have scheduled appointments according to their needs and discern when issues are/are not an emergency which requires immediate action.
  • Empower service users to develop their networks and recovery capital.