Job summary
Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.
Our core values are Be open, be compassionate and be bold and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Prison In-Reach Recovery Coordinator;who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs.
As a prison in-reach worker you will be based mainly at HMP Norwich (possibility of needing to visit other prison's within the Norfolk area) working with individuals with drug and alcohol concerns. You will also help bridge the gap between individuals being released from prison and going into structured treatment and support with Change Grow Live.
No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.
Where: Norwich
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week
Salary: CGL Scale 23 28 - £26,393.77 - £30,316.74 dependent on experience
Main duties of the job
- The Prison In-Reach Worker will act as the main coordinator providing comprehensive assessments; Coordinate the resettlement plan from prison by liaising with relevant agencies
- The post holder will be the navigator for these interventions, and advocate on behalf of the service user.
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
- Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
- Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination
- Carry out comprehensive service user assessments, including mapping of community resources and develop individual action plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing offending/substance use and re/integrating into the community
- Work closely with prison security departments when assessing risk and develop strong links with partner agencies within the prison system
- Work as part of a team to identify people who have a history of substance misuse and reoffending resulting in custodial sentences
About us
CGLs commitment to you
CGL works within the following framework and requires all employees to
do the same.
Equal Opportunities
CGL are committed to creating an inclusive environment, which celebrates
difference and allows our staff and service users to flourish. CGL are
committed to promoting and ensuring anti discriminatory practices through our
organisational values, policies, and procedures, which we expect all staff to
promote and adhere to. CGL expect all staff to challenge prejudice and
discrimination, to support staff with this we offer robust supervision
alongside training and development opportunities to continually improve
equality, diversity, and inclusion practices.
Vision
CGL enables people to make the positive changes necessary to lead
independent and purposeful lives and create safer, healthier communities.
Career Development and Progression
CGL is committed to providing its staff with opportunities for personal
and professional development. We provide an internal training and development
program and aim to keep all our people up to date with new legislation and
trends in social care work, with specialist training provided as required.
Where appropriate, staff undertake external training courses in line with their
development needs.
Safeguarding
CGL are committed to ensuring the safeguarding and wellbeing of children
and adults at risk, and all applicants will be required to demonstrate
understanding of and commitment to best safeguarding practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a
prison in-reach worker you will be based mainly at HMP Norwich (possibility of
needing to visit other prison's within the Norfolk area) working with
individuals with drug and alcohol concerns. You will also help bridge the gap
between individuals being released from prison and going into structured
treatment and support with Change Grow Live.
The
Prison In-Reach Worker will act as the main coordinator providing comprehensive
assessments; Coordinate the resettlement plan from prison by liaising with
relevant agencies.
The
post holder will be the navigator for these interventions, and advocate on
behalf of the service user.
Carry
out comprehensive service user assessments, including mapping of community
resources and develop individual action plans that clearly identify how
achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing offending/substance
use and re/integrating into the community.
Work
closely with prison security departments when assessing risk and develop strong
links with partner agencies within the prison system.
To
support information sharing and shared processes between all relevant partners
to affect a safe, seamless and successful resettlement plan from prison.
Work
as part of a team to identify people who have a history of substance misuse and
reoffending resulting in custodial sentences.
To
work with local communities and/or prison establishments to ensure the
provision of naloxone and overdose prevention information is provided at the
point of release.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a
prison in-reach worker you will be based mainly at HMP Norwich (possibility of
needing to visit other prison's within the Norfolk area) working with
individuals with drug and alcohol concerns. You will also help bridge the gap
between individuals being released from prison and going into structured
treatment and support with Change Grow Live.
The
Prison In-Reach Worker will act as the main coordinator providing comprehensive
assessments; Coordinate the resettlement plan from prison by liaising with
relevant agencies.
The
post holder will be the navigator for these interventions, and advocate on
behalf of the service user.
Carry
out comprehensive service user assessments, including mapping of community
resources and develop individual action plans that clearly identify how
achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing offending/substance
use and re/integrating into the community.
Work
closely with prison security departments when assessing risk and develop strong
links with partner agencies within the prison system.
To
support information sharing and shared processes between all relevant partners
to affect a safe, seamless and successful resettlement plan from prison.
Work
as part of a team to identify people who have a history of substance misuse and
reoffending resulting in custodial sentences.
To
work with local communities and/or prison establishments to ensure the
provision of naloxone and overdose prevention information is provided at the
point of release.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of the criminal justice system.
- Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills.
- Knowledge of anti-social behaviour legislation.
- A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, community groups, etc.
- Experience of working within substance misuse services.
- Willingness to undertake full prison vetting and clearance.
- Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
- Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users.
- Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards.
- Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others.
- Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to engage successfully with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
Desirable
- Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services and good practice.
- Experience of working with people who have offending
- backgrounds including Multi Agency Public Protection
- Arrangements.
- Experience of working within a prison setting.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of the criminal justice system.
- Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills.
- Knowledge of anti-social behaviour legislation.
- A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, community groups, etc.
- Experience of working within substance misuse services.
- Willingness to undertake full prison vetting and clearance.
- Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
- Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users.
- Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards.
- Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others.
- Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to engage successfully with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
Desirable
- Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services and good practice.
- Experience of working with people who have offending
- backgrounds including Multi Agency Public Protection
- Arrangements.
- Experience of working within a prison setting.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
