Your World is looking for an experienced Band 5 Recovery Worker to work within a Prison in Wolverhampton on a locum basis.

You will be joining an exciting and motivated team within a Prison in the area of Wolverhampton.

Are you the ideal candidate?

The ideal candidate will have previous experience in a similar role, with a positive attitude towards taking on new challenges and improving their skillset.

As an experienced Recovery Worker in Wolverhampton, they will be committed to providing the highest levels of care to patients, providing an experience that contributes to the facility's already sterling reputation. They will understand how to work with patients from all backgrounds, catering to their specific needs with professionalism and confidence at all times.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide harm reduction advice, information, and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne infections 
• Be responsible for maintaining a full case load of clients as the key worker. 
• To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral. 
• To assist and support nurse prescribers during prescribing clinics. 
• To provide a range of structured psycho-social interventions including CBT based brief solution focused therapy and motivational enhancement techniques. 
• To create and facilitate group work interventions. 
• To provide a needle exchange service. 
• Demonstrable commitment to service user involvement. 
• To work with a range of professional in ensuring service users’ needs in terms of safeguarding and mental health are met. 
• Encourage and work with service users to move forward in their recovery 
• Encourage and work intensively with service users to support them move away from maintenance treatment where appropriate

Who is Your World?

Your World was established in 2005 and has been supplying high-calibre healthcare professionals to the NHS and private sector up until the present day. Our specialist Occupational Therapy Consultants have the knowledge and skills to provide the finest OT jobs available in the UK.

We supply 280 NHS Trusts and CCGs and 338 private healthcare organisations within the UK. Last year, Your World provided our candidates with over 5 million hours of work!

Sound like the perfect position for you? Click Apply Now or contact me on 02037516060. Alternatively, email Reece at [email protected] to find out more about our Occupational Therapy jobs on offer in the UK.