If you are a resilient, compassionate and recovery focused support worker, who has a good understanding of substance misuse, and has the ability to work flexibly in a challenging environment, this may be the role for you.
HMP Eastwood Park is female prison housing up to 440 women who are both sentenced and remanded. The healthcare service is formed through a consortium of agencies, AWP works alongside the main contractor Practice Plus Group.
Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.
Working as part of the substance misuse psychosocial team you will have the opportunity to work alongside an experienced multi-disciplinary team, that is supportive and motivated to deliver outstanding care.
We strive to use the expertise and resources within our team, organisation, and partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe and focused on people's recovery. All our staff are pivotal in the quality of care we provide and we are committed to enabling them to develop both professional and personally.
Successful candidates will have previously completed, or be committed to completing, the care certificate, or equivalent qualification.
Applicants will be required to work 30.0 hours a week, primarily Monday to Friday.
The successful candidate will be required to obtain prison security clearance in addition to DBS and reference checks.
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Provide a defined drug and alcohol service to an allocated caseload of service users, having responsibility for the assessment of needs, the planning and implementation of treatment and care to meet those needs as agreed in line with personal recovery goals.
Liaise as appropriate with other members of the multidisciplinary team and other agencies involved in the care of individual service users.
The role will also require undertaking and delivering defined activities and interventions for a caseload of identified service users, in accordance with the agreed personal recovery plan. This maybe either on a one to one basis, or as part of a group activity.
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