Recovery Practitioner - Criminal Justice - London
Job overview
Working as part of Better Lives team which is the Community Substance Misuse multi-disciplinary team in Islington for service users with complex substance misuse needs.
The post holder will, using a range of generic and or specific tools be responsible for providing individual service user assessment and identifying, delivering, and evaluating care interventions. This will include providing direct care to service users.
The post holder will have a designated caseload of service users to Provide high quality, person-centred care to service users, responding to the individual and diverse needs and to their significant others, delegated by the Clinical Lead or designated supervisor/manager.They may also take on a care co-ordination role for a specific group of service users.
Main duties of the job
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to plan, carry out and record proactive, assertive work to identify our clients within Criminal Justice settings and seek to bring them onto our caseload to commence key working and recovery planning with them
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to plan, carry out and record proactive, assertive work to identify our clients within Criminal Justice settings and seek to bring them onto our caseload to commence key working and recovery planning with them.
Prison In-reach targeting the key prisons where Islington residents reside to proactively identify and engage our client group and offer effective ways of bringing them onto our caseload and supporting continuity in their treatment and care needs on release.
Work with key professionals within the Prison estate such as Health Care Teams and Wardens to foster meaningful and effective partnerships.
Work with key professionals within London Probation and IOM Teams to identify substance using clients on their caseload and bring them onto our caseload to start offering targeting support to improve the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
As clients are identified and brought onto your caseload to support their Recovery and Care Planning
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Knowledge and experience of working within or alongside Criminal Justice settings.
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent training
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches, storing data and retrieving data, producing reports etc
- Demonstrate an ability to liaise with other agencies and carers involved.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Demonstrate an understanding and experience of the assessment of risk and the evaluation of care interventions
- Knowledge of current criminal justice processes, policy and ways of working
- Evidence of interest in and ability to contribute to service development