Criminal Justice Engagement Worker

Job Overview

Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life? Do you have an interest in tackling complex or challenging cases, whilst supporting people to reduce drug related harm and offending?

We are currently recruiting for an experienced worker to join our criminal justice team within the Isle of Wight. This post is aimed at providing assessment and support for people who are part of the criminal justice system, who also experience difficulties associated with drug use.

You will be offering caseload support to the current Criminal Justice Worker and offering information and advice to people who access the service.

Job Description Subject To Change.

Main duties of the job

Full Time Criminal Justice Engagement Worker post, for a period of 6 months.

• Work as an integral part of the service in delivering high quality brief interventions to Service Users within the criminal justice system
• Work with and support the Inclusion multi-disciplinary team
• Facilitate harm reduction interventions including the delivery of Naloxone training to clients, families and partnerships
• Supporting service users who are released from custody, as well as supporting service users digitally who are released from other prisons
• Contributing to service users working collaboratively to build their recovery capital and ensuring positive recovery outcomes.
• Ensuring service users have scheduled appointments and remove barriers to attendance.
• Promoting visible recovery to clients within the criminal justice system
  
  

Working for our organisation

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.

We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.

Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below:

• To deliver effective brief interventions
• To work with service users in attendance and manage day today issues which arise upon release from custody or prisons etc
• To signpost to local services and empower service users to build their community networks and recovery capital.
• To promote visible and contagious recovery to service users within the criminal justice systems.
• To work collaboratively with all service users/partner agencies/stakeholders to identify the barriers that prevent people from all communities accessing a full range of services, including substance misuse mental health wellbeing and primary mental health services.
• Engage service users into treatment and through their Recovery Journey
• Complete screening and asset based mapping to identify appropriate recovery focused interventions.
  
  

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in the drug and alcohol field
• Experience of working in the criminal justice field or with people involved with the criminal justice system