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Senior Practitioner

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Category: Health and Social Care Practitioner
Type of Contract: Fixed term employee
Contracted Hours Per Week: 37.50
Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 28 to 30 (£31,529.41 - £33,708.57)
ILW / OLW /Fringe: N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
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Overview

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Practitioner focusing on improving Continuity of Care for prison leavers and supporting the Nottinghamshire Criminal Justice Team to increase engagement with service users produced at court.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an individual with a background in criminal justice to become a key member of a passionate and committed team supporting people in recovery.

Where: Nottinghamshire

Hours: 37.5 The post is fixed term until 31/03/2025.

Salary:£31,529,41 £33,708,57

Responsibilities

About the role:

Work closely with the CGL prison in-reach workers, Prison health care, Prison partners, Probation and External Support Agencies to ensure effective coordination of Release Planning
Design holistic resettlement plans to support the continuity of health care once our clients are released from prison
Work closely with the Courts in Nottingham City and Mansfield to ensure the timely provision of DRR and ATR assessments for people deemed suitable for assessment by Probation
Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
Ensuring quality of service delivery through data analysis and engaging staff in service quality improvement planning. Where necessary, create team and individual performance plans to improve quality and performance.
Work with your team to ensure that the practices within the team/service enable identification of service users, children and families who are at risk. Ensure that staff are competent in the delivery of interventions that reduce risk to service users.
Support staff to improve service user outcomes through audits and observed practice, providing timely values-based feedback.

About you:

Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field ideally within prison/criminal justice
Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders
Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others.

What We Offer:

25 days of holiday (+ bank holidays), increasing yearly for first 5 years.
A paid 'Wellness' hour each week, a 'Wellness' hub, and an Employee Assistance Programme.
Contributory pension scheme.
Multiple benefits, including discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, and more.
A friendly and supportive team.
Comprehensive training, career development, and progression opportunities.
Participate in our Refer a Friend Scheme.

Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.

If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you.

Please note: This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level and necessary prison clearance. The post is fixed term until 31/03/2025.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

CGL points 28 to 30 (£31,529.41 - £33,708.57)

ILW / OLW /Fringe

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

Closing Date

6/5/2024

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Claire Thorpe | claire.thorpe@cgl.org.uk

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

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We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.

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