Criminal Justice Worker

Seven Resourcing are looking for a temporary Criminal Justice Worker to work in Blyth. This position is initially for a period of 3 months and is paying £13.00 (PAYE) or £17.06 (umbrella) per hour. The working hours are Monday – Friday from 9am – 5pm. 

The role:

To work as part of a team to provide collaborative recovery planning and case management to substance misusers (drug and alcohol) across all stages of individuals’ recovery journeys, from assessment and engagement through to sustained recovery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a service user caseload, devising, implementing and reviewing ongoing recovery plans and treatment, liaising closely with the full range of workers and skills within the service team, including family members and significant others as appropriate.
• Carry out triage/screening assessments and comprehensive assessments with service users.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies to undertake shared assessments, key working and interventions to promote individual service user progression from engagement, through structured treatment to self-sustained recovery.
• Facilitate service user access to treatment and community resources to increase recovery and social capital, supporting service users and their families within their local community.
• To lead effective case management for allocated service users, including on-going processes such as risk assessments, risk management plans and safeguarding assessments and plans. This includes the effective use of an online case management system.
• To work closely and collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team across the service and externally, providing advice and reports/ information to managers and other colleagues, through attendance at reviews, team meetings, supervision and via telephone conversations.
• To improve outcomes for children, parents/carers and families of services users by reducing the impact of drug and alcohol related harm on family life and promote positive family involvement in recovery.
• Develop and deliver quality programs and packages of work/ psychosocial interventions that meet local need across both group work and one to one formats.

Applicant Requirements:

Qualifications:

NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care (or above or equivalent) or willing to work towards this in post.

Experience: 2+ years working within a similar role. 

Compliance: 2 x references and a current DBS. 

Travel: Clean UK driving license with the ability to commute to and from work independently.

Hours: 37.5 hours p/w.

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