Criminal Justice Resilience Worker
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £24,720 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bangor, Gwynedd |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Adferiad Recovery |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | AC181 |
Summary
Criminal Justice Resilience Worker
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.
Contract: Permanent, 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 17:00
Salary: £24,720 per annum
Location: Based in Bangor, covering Gwynedd and Anglesey
Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
Interviews for this vacancy will be held on Wednesday, 15th May 2024.
The role:
An opportunity has arisen for a passionate and self-motivated individual to join the Dechrau Newydd project as a Criminal Justice Resilience Worker. In the role of a Resilience Worker you will be responsible for coordinating and delivering harm reduction, structured interventions, and recovery support, alongside working closely with community clinical service providers and other partners to ensure a person centred and holistic approach. Services work closely with current community providers to ensure transfer of care from prison services, community treatment and into wider recovery support.
The Criminal Justice Resilience Worker will be expected to provide assessment, recommendation, and feedback to colleagues within HMPPS and North Wales Police on the suitability and recovery progress of substance misuse service users within the Criminal Justice system. The Dechrau Newydd team work collaboratively with partner agencies including Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB), Local Authorities, North Wales Police (NWP) and the North Wales Office of Police and Crime Commissioner (NWOPCC), HMPPS (His Majesties Prison and Probation Service), PHW (Public Health Wales), and other third sector support agencies.
Please note:
Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be subjected to a Level 2 Police Vetting which consists of a financial and criminal history check from 18 years of age and a residency check in the last 5 years. This check will also extend to close family members and friends.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace.
All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values, (such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
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.
We are a living wage employer.
If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org
FOR MORE INFORMATION, A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=2c1b6685-ff0e-48bd-95e9-4dd2f7af17de
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.
Contract: Permanent, 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 17:00
Salary: £24,720 per annum
Location: Based in Bangor, covering Gwynedd and Anglesey
Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
Interviews for this vacancy will be held on Wednesday, 15th May 2024.
The role:
An opportunity has arisen for a passionate and self-motivated individual to join the Dechrau Newydd project as a Criminal Justice Resilience Worker. In the role of a Resilience Worker you will be responsible for coordinating and delivering harm reduction, structured interventions, and recovery support, alongside working closely with community clinical service providers and other partners to ensure a person centred and holistic approach. Services work closely with current community providers to ensure transfer of care from prison services, community treatment and into wider recovery support.
The Criminal Justice Resilience Worker will be expected to provide assessment, recommendation, and feedback to colleagues within HMPPS and North Wales Police on the suitability and recovery progress of substance misuse service users within the Criminal Justice system. The Dechrau Newydd team work collaboratively with partner agencies including Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB), Local Authorities, North Wales Police (NWP) and the North Wales Office of Police and Crime Commissioner (NWOPCC), HMPPS (His Majesties Prison and Probation Service), PHW (Public Health Wales), and other third sector support agencies.
Please note:
Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be subjected to a Level 2 Police Vetting which consists of a financial and criminal history check from 18 years of age and a residency check in the last 5 years. This check will also extend to close family members and friends.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace.
All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values, (such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
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.
We are a living wage employer.
If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org
FOR MORE INFORMATION, A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=2c1b6685-ff0e-48bd-95e9-4dd2f7af17de