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Dyfodol Caseworker
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £25,027.20 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | Pontypool, Torfaen |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Adferiad Recovery |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | AF073 |
Summary
Dyfodol Caseworker
Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Hours: 22.5 hours per week, Mon – Fri (occasional weekend work)
Salary: £25,027.20 per annum (pro rata)
Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
Location: HMP Prescoed/HMP Usk, Pontypool
Interviews for this vacancy will be held on 05/06/24 and 06/06/24. Specific times will be offered to all shortlisted candidates closer to the closing date.
Job Purpose:
The Dyfodol Offender Interventions Serviceis an integrated partnership provision for South Wales and for the public sector prisons of HMP Cardiff, HMP Swansea, HMP Usk/Prescoed and including HMP Parc. 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, support the reduction of drug and alcohol related misuse and reduce levels of offending, demonstrating evidence based best practice in all the Services.
The Service will include developing and sustaining close working relationships with a number of organisations to align to and support the work of the three Area Planning Boards (Western Bay, Cardiff the Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg). It will also provide support for adult offenders and prisoners who have a drug and/or alcohol dependency who reside within the seven unitary local authority areas of South Wales (Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil).
If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities assuming that others will be more successful, but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross section of the community.
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 or on 01492 863005.
FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: http://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=13632373-dddf-47a3-909d-cea5157a54dd
Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Hours: 22.5 hours per week, Mon – Fri (occasional weekend work)
Salary: £25,027.20 per annum (pro rata)
Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
Location: HMP Prescoed/HMP Usk, Pontypool
Interviews for this vacancy will be held on 05/06/24 and 06/06/24. Specific times will be offered to all shortlisted candidates closer to the closing date.
Job Purpose:
The Dyfodol Offender Interventions Serviceis an integrated partnership provision for South Wales and for the public sector prisons of HMP Cardiff, HMP Swansea, HMP Usk/Prescoed and including HMP Parc. 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, support the reduction of drug and alcohol related misuse and reduce levels of offending, demonstrating evidence based best practice in all the Services.
The Service will include developing and sustaining close working relationships with a number of organisations to align to and support the work of the three Area Planning Boards (Western Bay, Cardiff the Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg). It will also provide support for adult offenders and prisoners who have a drug and/or alcohol dependency who reside within the seven unitary local authority areas of South Wales (Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil).
If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities assuming that others will be more successful, but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross section of the community.
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 or on 01492 863005.
FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: http://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=13632373-dddf-47a3-909d-cea5157a54dd
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