Drug and Alcohol Practitioner - HMP Styal

Main area: Substance Misuse Practitioner

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time – 21 hours per week (Three Day Working Week)

Job ref: 847-RM-24-V486

Employer: Spectrum Community Health CIC

Employer type: Public (Non NHS)

Site: HMP Styal

Town: Wilmslow, Cheshire

Salary: £29,970 – £36,483 pro rata – Non-NHS will commence employment at AFC Entry step 1

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 04/02/2025 23:59

Drug and Alcohol Practitioner – HMP Styal

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen to recruit a talented, enthusiastic, determined and resourceful Drug and Alcohol Practitioner to work within this challenging service to provide services within Spectrum’s prison-based Drug & Alcohol recovery-orientated treatment model as part of a forward-looking, flexible, innovative, and creative team. To ensure that the service’s key elements (assessment, case management, delivery of psychosocial interventions, release planning and throughcare) are integrated and delivered to a high standard.

Main duties of the job

1. Deliver services that support service users to achieve recovery goals, positive outcomes and community re-integration, maximising engagement and retention.
2. Work effectively and flexibly with colleagues under the direction of the Drug & Alcohol Service Manager (Recovery), Drug & Alcohol Senior Practitioners, and other managers, to ensure that high standards of performance are maintained.
3. Collaborate with other services to provide interventions to support and motivate service users through all stages of their individual recovery journey.
4. Work within a strengths-based, recovery-orientated, change and outcomes and trauma-informed approach.
5. Adhere to and support HR processes as required.

Working for our organisation

BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE

Join our team

We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.

• Access to NHS Pension
• Annual leave on your Birthday
• Refer a friend scheme
• Training and Development opportunities
• Flexible Working
• Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on the advertised role.

Person specification

• Relevant degree or equivalent level of experience
• Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate group work and to positively engage participants in learning and development
• Ability to develop new projects and interventions in line with service aims, taking on a lead role as required

Skills

• Ability to deliver individual packages of care, including assessment, recovery planning, and psychosocial interventions
• Ability to engage, support and challenge service users to enable progression towards recovery goals
• Ability to maintain accurate, detailed and timely records
• Ability to work collaboratively with co-workers, prison and community colleagues
• Ability to work at a fast pace, organising and prioritising caseloads and tasks
• Ability to maintain a focus on the users of services, their families and their communities

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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