Criminal Justice & Outreach Practitioner - Dependency & Recovery

The Role

Experience of working within substance misuse and criminal justice knowledge or a related Health and Social Care setting is essential as well as experience of delivering structured treatment groups. You must be committed, resourceful and highly motivated to engage people within treatment services and promote recovery through their daily practice.

You will be co located within Chester probation offices and our Ellesmere Port Hub as part of Dependency and Recovery to improve continuity of care upon release from prison to achieve their recovery journey goals, via 1:1s and structured groupwork packages, and case manage clients on probation alongside the Probation Practitioners.

Your duties will include:

• assessing their needs, delivering effective interventions, completing detailed reports, and working closely with our criminal justice partner agencies, clinical team and other partner agencies.
• conducting assessments for clients, including Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) and Drugs Rehabilitation Requirements (DRR) assessments.
• managing a case load and coordinating and delivering assessments and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning.
• delivering harm reduction advice, psychosocial interventions, needle & syringe exchanges, Blood borne virus testing and interventions, drug testing and overdose prevention advice.

An empathetic and non-judgmental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours. Good time management and team working skills are essential in this fast-paced service.

Based within Cheshire West & Chester integrated Drug and Alcohol Service, the Criminal Justice Outreach Practitioner role will support criminal justice service users within the area Contact, assess, refer and support drug and alcohol users in criminal justice settings (including Court, prisons, & probation offices), treatment agencies and other appropriate settings.

Please do not reapply if you have previously applied within the last 12 months.

For an informal chat about the role, or if you would like to visit the service, please contact Jane Murphy, Service Manager via Jane.Murphy@viaorg.uk

The closing date for applications is Sunday 1 December at midnight.

Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 2 December.