Job Details
Banding: Band 4 Specialist Family Support Worker
Hourly rate: £14 - £15 per hour
Working hours: Full-time working hours
Payment Method: Direct Engagement
Contract Type: Locum
Contract Length: 3-month minimum with a scope for extension
Job Summary
- Work as an integral part of the service in delivering high quality brief interventions to Service Users within the criminal justice system
- Work with and support the Inclusion multi-disciplinary team
- Facilitate harm reduction interventions including the delivery of Naloxone training to clients, families and partnerships
- Supporting service users who are released from custody and HMPs as well as supporting service users digitally who are released from other prisons
- Contributing to service users working collaboratively to build their recovery capital and ensuring positive recovery outcomes.
- Ensuring service users have scheduled appointments and remove barriers to attendance.
- Promoting visible recovery to clients within the criminal justice system
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
- Ensuring that your work is evidence based, up to date and in accordance with current policy and legislation.
- Facilitate and oversee initial brief intervention (IBI’s) assessments.
- Keeping up to date and accurate records and documentation.
- Deliver training to partnership agencies
Person Specification
- Evidence of continuous Professional development
- Willingness to undertake NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care
- CBT
- Motivational Interviewing
- Brief solution focussed therapy
- TA
- Mapping techniques (ITEP/BTEI)
- Understanding and awareness of the effects of substance misuse on an individual and the community
Blackstone Benefits
✅Assigned specialised recruitment consultant
✅Access to exclusive and flexible UK locum and permanent jobs
✅Complete onboarding support
✅Framework Rates
✅Informed tailored career advice
✅Personalised job alerts
✅Unlimited referral bonus
✅Prompt payroll