Psychosocial Recovery Worker

Do you want to make a real difference as a Psychosocial Substance Misuse Recovery Worker? Why not bring your compassion and skills to help support people in their recovery? Our Integrated Substance Misuse & Mental Health Service, at HMP Oakwood, is looking for a dynamic and experienced Psychosocial Recovery Worker. The team is innovative, forward‑thinking and committed to a Recovery focused approach that meets people’s needs.

You will be part of a supportive team with effective management, supervision and guidance. Working with people who have complex offending backgrounds and substance misuse needs within prison is both challenging and rewarding. This is a fantastic chance to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are often disadvantaged and vulnerable.

• Passionate about providing high quality substance misuse support?
• Skilled and experienced in providing evidence‑based psychosocial interventions, geared towards supporting people to make positive changes and work towards recovery?
• Highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire?
• Able to apply your skills and interventions to the care of people with substance misuse needs that often co‑exist with mental health needs?

Then we want to hear from you! This job is open to qualified professionals or members of the public with experience and understanding of working within substance misuse services.

• Provide a range of low, medium and high intensity interventions as part of the Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Team to those people experiencing substance misuse problems.
• Work in a custodial environment delivering a high quality drug and alcohol recovery service in response to need.
• Provide a range of psychosocial interventions motivating and supporting people to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery‑oriented substance misuse treatment service.
• Work in collaboration with clinical prescribing services to ensure the needs of each service user are met.
• Provide a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psychosocial interventions) to people located within the prison establishment.
• Provide varied and comprehensive interventions in line with the stepped care model.
• Work in partnership with key agencies to ensure people are supported on their individual recovery journeys.
• Deliver the substance misuse and wellbeing elements of the integrated offender team.
• Facilitate groups.

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, realizing 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.