Job summary
- Main area
- Substance Misuse Practitioner
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Current Working Hours - Mon-Fri, 8am-4pm)
- Job ref
- 847-RM-25-V596
- Employer
- Spectrum Community Health CIC
- Employer type
- Public (Non NHS)
- Site
- HMP/YOI Styal
- Town
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Drug & Alcohol - Recovery Support Worker - HMP Styal
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a dedicated, enthusiastic, and resourceful Drug and Alcohol Support Worker to join our team. This role is based within a dynamic and challenging prison environment, working as part of Spectrum’s prison-based Drug & Alcohol recovery-focused treatment model. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of high-quality support across the key elements of the service, including assessment, case management, psychosocial interventions, release planning, and throughcare. This is a great opportunity to be part of a forward-thinking, flexible, and supportive team committed to making a positive difference in the lives of those we work with.
Main duties of the job
This Support Worker role offers the opportunity to work closely with and provide essential support to a team of Recovery Coordinators within a busy and dynamic prison-based Drug & Alcohol Service. The post holder will contribute to the delivery of services that help individuals achieve their recovery goals, improve outcomes, and support successful reintegration into the community. Under the guidance of the Drug & Alcohol Service Manager (Recovery), Senior Practitioners, and other managers, the Support Worker will work effectively and flexibly as part of the wider team to maintain high standards of service delivery. The role involves working collaboratively with partner agencies to provide meaningful interventions that motivate and support service users throughout their individual recovery journeys. This position requires a strengths-based, trauma-informed, and recovery-orientated approach, recognising service users as active participants in their own health, wellbeing, and recovery. The Support Worker will also be expected to support and adhere to HR processes as directed by the management team and in line with organisational policy.
Working for our organisation
BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE
Join our team
We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.
Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we’ve got a role for you!
- Access to NHS Pension
- Annual leave on your Birthday
- Welcome payment for some posts
- Refer a friend scheme
- Training and Development opportunities
- Flexible Working
- Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
- Up to 33 days annual leave
Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people – our patients, service users, staff and partners.
We are building on our ambition to deliver the best in health and wellbeing on a values-driven ethos and to maintain the highest standards of patient care and service. We are an expanding organisation, but we aim to grow without compromising on quality and social value.
Our Mission
Holistic interventions delivered with compassion for the stigmatised and marginalised in our communities
Our Vision
Quality healthcare that makes a difference to people’s lives, regardless of circumstances.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on the advertised role.
Person specification
NA
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with vulnerable individuals, ideally within a substance misuse, criminal justice, health or social care setting
- Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, supporting colleagues and service delivery in a flexible and collaborative way.
- IT literacy, including the ability to use electronic case management systems and Microsoft Office applications.
- Good organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to maintain accurate records and meet deadlines.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with service users and professionals.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of recovery-focused approaches and a commitment to supporting individuals through change.
- Basic knowledge of harm reduction, relapse prevention, and psychosocial interventions.
- Ability to engage, support and challenge service users to enable progression towards recovery goals
- Previous experience in a prison or secure setting.
- Experience facilitating group work sessions related to substance misuse, recovery, or wellbeing.
- Understanding of trauma-informed practice and strength-based approaches.
- Awareness of safeguarding protocols and procedures for working with vulnerable adults.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cara Pendlebury
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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