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Psychosocial Worker

Employer
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Retford
Salary
£27,055 to £32,934 a year per annum (pro rata for part time)
Closing date
3 Oct 2022

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Grade
Band 5
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
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To provide a substance misuse through-care service for prisoners from the point of entry into the prison system to re-entry into the community so that re-offending is reduced and the health and social functioning of prisoners is improved.

To provide high quality patient care through assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for people with substance misuse problems working to both harm reduction and health promotion / recovery agendas.

Main duties of the job

To assist in the provision of effective substance misuse health services for prisoners which deliver against required standards, e.g. Key Performance Indicators, Prison Health Performance Indicators and demonstrate value for money, improve the health of individuals, enabling the service to compete as provider of choice to local commissioners.

You should be enthusiastic, motivated, person-focused and enjoy a challenge. Previous knowledge or experience of Mental health, Substance misuse or Forensic/ Secure services is beneficial.

About us

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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Job description
Job responsibilities

The Offender Health Directorate is one of the largest and most successful providers of prison healthcare in the UK. The Directorate provide physical, mental health and substance misuse healthcare services in prisons across the East Midlands, Lincolnshire & Leicestershire.The Directorate provides healthcare to 9 prisons and a short term holding facility. You are part of a large peer group of 400+ healthcare professionals with access to peer support, supervision and excellent opportunities for learning and development. We also offer services within the Personality Disorder Pathway, including Therapeutic Communities (within prisons), Community and Prison Personality Disorder services and specialist Veteran Services.We are committed to working in partnership with prison services, national probation service other healthcare providers and our criminal justice system partners to improve health, support justice to reduce re-offending behaviour. The Offender Health Team truly believes it can make a difference to the lives of offenders by offering consistent, high-quality care in primary, mental health and substance misuse services that are equivalent to health services delivered outside of Prison.

Please read the detailed Job description and person specification.

Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
  • Either a current professional registration e.g. nursing, O.T, Social Work Or Equivalent knowledge and experience in the provision of structured psychosocial interventions
  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development in relation to substance misuse

Work Experience
Essential
  • Experience of community related Substance Misuse multidisciplinary work. This could include substantial voluntary work or work in a related field e.g. housing
  • Experience of working with patients presenting with challenging behaviours
  • Experience of managing own work in a team setting
  • Experience of working with individuals and groups
  • Experience of record keeping, report writing, correspondence

Desirable
  • Experience of working in a secure setting

Skills
Essential
  • Ability to undertake comprehensive assessments.
  • To assess and evaluate risk in relation to substance misuse
  • Excellent and effective written, verbal and non- verbal communication skills.
  • IT skills including Work, Excel and electronic patient record systems

Desirable
  • Effective problem solving and decision making skills


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