Criminal Justice Recovery Practitioner

Overview

Within this role, you will play a vital part in delivering substance misuse treatment and recovery support for individuals with drug and alcohol needs across the criminal justice pathway. You will work closely with prisons to support continuity of care, and in partnership with courts and probation services to deliver timely, high-quality, person-centred assessments, evidence-based drug and alcohol interventions and recovery planning.

Working collaboratively with criminal justice partners and multi-disciplinary teams, you will take an assertive and compassionate approach to engagement, risk management and safeguarding, contributing to integrated offender management pathways, reducing re-offending and improving outcomes.

• Deliver substance misuse treatment and recovery support for individuals with drug and alcohol needs across the criminal justice pathway.
• Collaborate with prisons to support continuity of care, and with courts and probation services to deliver timely, person-centred assessments, interventions and recovery planning.
• Work with criminal justice partners and multi-disciplinary teams to engage, manage risk and safeguarding, and contribute to integrated offender management pathways.
• Help reduce re-offending and improve outcomes through evidence-based practice.

• Compassion, good communication skills and the ability to stay calm under pressure.
• Good listening skills, curiosity and a desire to make a difference.

Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume times, the employer may limit the number of interviews offered. For more details please refer to the employer’s policy.

Via: our mission is to provide the best health and wellbeing support to as many people as possible, helping them to change their lives for the better. Our values are:

• Care. Care for people is at the heart of everything we do.
• Be human. We are accessible, genuine and humble. Always learning.
• Do the right thing. We’re open, honest and inclusive. We get things done.

We want to recruit the very best talent and nurture a positive workplace culture where our colleagues feel valued, recognised, empowered and supported.