Recovery Support Worker

Job overview

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An exciting opportunity has opened up within the Inclusion Substance Misuse Team at HMP Gartree.

As a band 4 Recovery Support Worker you will be delivering evidence based interventions in a group and 1:1 setting with our service users.

You will carry a case load and manage that effectively.

Main duties of the job

You will be joining a well established, hard working team who will support you in your new role. Your day to day job will be to support the men in your care through their recovery plan. This will be through the delivery of group work session and 1:1 interventions.

You will support the Under the Influence Pathway and report writing and updating case notes will be an important part of your role

You will provide a range of low, medium and high intensity interventions as part of the substance misuse team to those service users experiencing substance misuse problems.

Working within a multi-disciplinary team, in a custodial environment, you will be 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 and supporting with the Recovery Champions and mentors.

You will 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·

Collaborating with clinical prescribing services, you will ensure the needs of each service user is met and that integrated working is a key element to Inclusion’s prison services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. A summary is as follows:

• To organise programme of groupwork within the establishment and to facilitate group work interventions as directed by Line Manager.
• To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate prioritisation for groupwork attendees.
• Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne infections.
• Be responsible maintaining an appropriate caseload with key worker responsibility.
• To carry out comprehensive assessments as required by their line manager.
• To co-produce and construct care packages with multi disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
• Demonstrable commitment to service user involvement and leading service user projects.
• To be involved with recruitment, management and supervision of recovery champions and mentor and provide them with training and regular support and to further develop the lived experience network
• To work with a range of professionals in ensuring service users’ needs in terms of safeguarding and mental health are met.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.