Substance Misuse Practitioner

Main area Substance Misuse Recovery Support Worker Grade NHS AfC:
Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 36 hours per week Job
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Employer Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services Employer type NHS Site HMP Gartree Town Leicestershire Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/03/2026 23:59

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An exciting opportunity has become available within the Inclusion substance misuse team at HMP Gartree. We are recruiting for a full time band 5 Psychosocial Substance Misuse Practitioner.

HMP Gartree is a male Cat B High security prison and the Inclusion SMS team support the population by offering support for drug/alcohol issues.

You would be joining a busy, established team who would support you in your new role

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 men prescribed OST.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.

As part of the Inclusion Substance Misuse Team you would hold a case load of service users and appropriately manage your time to support their pathway through treatment. This involves completing thorough assessments and building a care plan of treatment from that assessment and following this through with the required psychosocial interventions.

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.

We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.

We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.

We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.

Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.

Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

For more information about HMP Leicester and our incentives offer please see attached information.

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

To deliver a steps-based, recovery orientated and outcome focussed service within the host prison with a particular emphasis on high standards and good practice.

To work within an integrated team delivering psycho-social interventions to service users presenting with substance misuse issues, including alcohol.

To participate in the prison’s induction programme, encouraging and motivating clients to engage.

To use strengths-based approaches including mapping techniques and relevant paperwork inorder to carry out initial screening assessments.

To carry out further assessments that includes strengths-based node-link mapping technique sand recovery planning.

Work collaboratively with clinical services to ensure service users are referred for clinical service sand supported whilst waiting for or receiving clinical treatment. Including…