Job Description

Job Title: HMP Caseworker Hours: 37.5 hours per week Salary: \xc2\xa323,365.24 per annum Location: HMP Prescoed / HMP Usk Vacancies: 2 positions available for this role Adferiad Recovery delivers a new, flexible, and co-ordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse conditions and related issues. We harness the talents and experience of our founding and long-established leading Welsh Charities CAIS, Hafal, and WCADA in their fields, enabling our projects to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach. Job Purpose: The Dyfodol Offender Interventions Service is an integrated partnership provision for South Wales and for the public sector prisons. The aim of the service is to address the causes of drug and/or alcohol related offending and risk of harm to individuals, families, peers and their communities through assessment, engagement and diverting individual offenders out of crime and into appropriate levels of interventions. We are looking for a Prison Caseworker to develop and sustain close working relationships with a number of organisations to align to and support the work of the Area Planning Boards. You will also provide support for adult offenders and prisoners who have a drug and /or alcohol dependency who reside within the local authority area of Cardiff. Main Responsibilities:

• Provide advice, information, support, and interventions in relation to substance misuse and signposting to appropriate services.
• Provide a range of accurate and relevant information on drugs and alcohol and their effects to prisoners and to professionals within prisons.
• Provide substance misuse assessment, case management and care planning.
• Facilitate group work sessions alongside prison staff and healthcare teams.
• Reduce the risk of overdose by providing advice and information to reduce relapse and deliver Naloxone/ Prenoxad training prior to release.
• Maintain accurate client records and collection of information for monitoring and evaluating effectiveness and quality of service.
• Liaise with appropriate services to ensure continuity of treatment and support, for those receiving treatment prior to custody, during custody, on transfer, and on return to the community; including being the main lead for substance misuse whilst the prisoner is in custody.

Person Specification:

• NVQ 3 in Health & Social Care and/or relevant professional qualification.
• Experience of building productive working relationships with a range of partners.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams.
• Experience of working towards achieving individual and team objectives.

Due to the nature of this post, the successful applicant will be subject to police checks and prison security clearance, in addition to enhanced Disclosure and Barring System checks, which must be maintained throughout employment in HM Prison Service. Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects. TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: http://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=14b3a952-0c32-4c2f-bd91-a3a07c9622fa Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Salary: \xc2\xa323,365.24 per year Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Do you hold a NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care?

Language:

• Welsh (preferred)
• English (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person Reference ID: AF037