Senior Recovery Practitioner - HMP Wayland
Senior Practitioner HMP Wayland 37.5 hours per week. Full time permenant contract
Starting Salary £27,250 rising to a maximum salary of £29,250 in line with yearly appraisal.
Are you looking for an exciting and challenging opportunity that makes a difference?
The Role
We are recruiting a Senior Practitioner for our specialist psychosocial substance misuse service within HMP Wayland. A passionate and skilled team provide tailored interventions to service users who are located within the challenging prison environment. This service is one of many prison-based services across England, therefore the successful candidate will be able to share best practice and support from our services within the Phoenix Futures Group. The Senior Practitioner will play a crucial role in overseeing the development of the service and line management of staff.
About You
Do you have?
- Experience of the recovery work, substance misuse sector or related field
- Experience of delivering high quality work with service users
- An understanding of the complex issues presented by men entering custody
- A desire to work in collaboration with healthcare, mental health, community agencies and the prison service whilst adhering to security requirements
- A passion for supervision and developing your supervisees
- Willing to support your manager in leadership, managing the workload & data management
If so join us and we will support you to
- Contribute to the creative development of our treatment and recovery approach to meet the needs of our service users, our commissioners and stakeholders
- Access a range of learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional development.
- Help change the lives of men within the prison setting
Your Rewards
- Starting salary of £24,750 with opportunity to access potential yearly salary increments
- 25 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing each year to a maximum of 30 days)
- Benefits including season ticket loan, pension scheme and life assurance
- Support through occupational sick pay, eye-care vouchers and regular wellbeing talks and activities
- Continuous training and career development via PXL our dedicated learning management system
- Access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance programme including telephone and online access
- A rewarding role with the opportunity to help us support people on their journey to recovery and change their lives for the better.
- We’ll ensure you get all the support you need to thrive and succeed in your role and find your place amongst our incredible and collaborative teams
About Us
The Phoenix Futures Group has more than 50 years experience of developing and delivering pioneering substance misuse services. We believe in being the best and that is why we constantly strive to learn and innovate, to challenge ourselves, to adapt and to work together with others who can bring valuable expertise.
