We are recruiting for a Recovery Navigator in Surrey Prisons.
The Recovery Support service is available to current or former Forward Trust clients who are on a substance misuse recovery pathway, making good progress within the Forward Trust towards their personal goals, and coming to the end of their current treatment pathway.
While Recovery Support is not exclusively for clients who are abstinent, clients will need to be in control of their drink and/ or drug use, and not be chaotic in their using i.e. heavy drinking, antisocial behaviour, daily/binge using of either drugs or alcohol (especially main substance/s of choice).
Forward Connect is a peer-led mutual aid community of like-minded people who are making good progress in their own journey – this could be people in addiction recovery, moving away from crime, overcoming mental health problems, or who are coming out of a period of unemployment or homelessness.
This role will based between HMP Coldingley, HMP Send and HMP Bronzefield.
Roles Responsibilities
The Recovery Navigator role sits within the Recovery Directorate and forms a part of the Recovery Support Team. Utilising all of the resources it has to offer, this post will support Forward Trust service users who are committed and engaged in a recovery pathway, including those with complex needs to transition, thrive and settle back into the community.
The team focuses on a person centred approach enabling service users to sustain and maintain their recovery and fulfil their best potential. We aim to work in partnership with many agencies giving them the opportunity to offer their services to our service users, ensuring that every client has access to holistic and multidisciplinary service that meets their individual needs.
Recovery Navigators will be multi-skilled to provide support and a range of interventions across all complexity levels and be able to work across Forward Trust services, providing flexibility and resilience against changing demand.
The role will also deliver services which enhance access to treatment as well as providing additional support and guidance meeting the needs of people whose substance use disorders often co-occur alongside other complex needs.
Recovery Navigators will also play an active role in facilitating and delivering Forward Trusts online day programme.
Formal Line Management support will be given on a quarterly basis however, the expectation is that there will be regular and open dialogue with your Manager between sessions to clarify any points.
You will be responsible for adhering to the targets set by Forward and your line management. Co-operative working relationships with partner agencies and other internal staff are vital to this role.
Some degree of flexibility is required to support ‘out of office’ hours and the continuity of service delivery.
All probation-based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 3-6 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.
Checks will require you to provide information on the below:
- Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
- Your family (parents, parents’ partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
- Co-residents
- Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
- Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
- Credit reference checks
- Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that's publicly available on the internet to ensure there's nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
- Other government and overseas agency or police checks.
The Ideal Candidate
Please see below a list of skills and experience needed for this role.
- Knowledge and experience of the criminal justice sector and Recovery Agenda
- A thorough knowledge of the needs of clients who are in abstinence based recovery
- Experience of assessing adults in need of support around substance misuse and maintaining abstinence based recovery
- Experience of substance misuse field and/or experience of working in a related field or similar field
- Demonstrable experience of managing high caseloads, carrying out/ completing risk/ comprehensive assessments, SMART action plans and maintaining effective case records
- Experience of delivering both 1:1 and group-work interventions using motivational techniques and trauma informed approaches
- Experience of working effectively with adults experiencing multiple disadvantages; unemployment, homelessness, mental ill health, substance use
- The ability to set and stick to professional boundaries
- Experience of working with treatment and/or healthcare services
- The ability to set and stick to professional boundaries