Criminal Justice Recovery Worker

Criminal Justice Recovery Worker

Location: Sittingbourne, Kent

Salary: £24,000 per annum

Job Type: Full Time, Fixed Term Contract

Are you passionate about helping people and looking for a new challenge?

Do you want to work for a company where you are valued and be a person who can make a difference?

We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often-interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

What you will be doing

Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over (dependent on service). Services are designed to deliver Psychosocial Drug and Alcohol Interventions for Service users that are identified as having an Alcohol or drug problem.

Services will deliver client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment approaches depending on the requirements of the individual client. You will be required to manage clients who have been referred using the Criminal Justice (CJ) referral routes from courts, police custody and prisons; services provided to them will be integrated within the substance misuse service to provide appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assess, care plan; deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions including structured treatment programmes.

Through care and integration with other services such as Housing, Employment, Healthcare services, Probation and CRCs are an essential element of the work; key to this role is communication with all CJ partner agencies so that outcomes and attendance are clearly demonstrated.

This role will be for prison in-reach; routinely visiting clients in custody ahead of their release. Additionally, this role will require travel to a number of courts across East Kent.

You will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role.

Flexibility will be required in this role, this may include some evening/weekend shift and with reasonable notice to travel to other projects in the East Kent region to deliver services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.

What we are looking for

We are looking for motivated, self-driven and passionate individuals to work with our client group and support them on their way to recovery. The skills and experience listed below is desirable but not essential as we offer robust induction and ongoing training programme to develop our workforce.

• Knowledge of OST and harm
• Experience and motivation to engage individuals through pro-active outreach
• Experience of engaging and motivating individuals to change
• Experience of working within the substance misuse services.
• Proactively approach integrated ways of working support and adopt a multi-disciplinary approach.
• Meet targets and deadlines in accordance with contractual standards.
• Contribute to the overall smooth running of the service by being proactive and solution focused.
• Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments, risk management plans and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
• Experience of delivering structured interventions to service users.
• Experience of facilitating groups.
• Using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and group settings.
• Strong IT skills.

What we offer

• Training and development opportunities
• Flexible working
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (Optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme - Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for The Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website where you can complete your application.