Criminal Justice Recovery Worker

About This Role

This role is for a Criminal Justice Recovery Worker within Turning Point’s Leicestershire and Rutland Substance Use Services, focusing on supporting service users whose treatment is mandated by the courts. It involves managing a caseload, liaising with legal and partner agencies, and engaging proactively with service users to reduce substance use risks and reoffending.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of service users whose treatment with Turning Point is enforced by the courts, including ATRs and DRRs, licence and post sentence supervision
• Liaise with Offender Managers and the Courts, maintaining excellent relationships with key partner agencies and extensive multiagency working
• Attend Leicester Magistrates Court to promote the use of community sentence treatment requirements
• Commit to achieving targets related to Continuity of Care
• Proactively engage service users to reduce the risks related to their substance use and further offending

Requirements

• Full UK driving license and access to a vehicle
• Highly effective communicator
• Efficient and organised
• Passion for supporting service users to engage in treatment
• Engaging, enthusiastic and passionate
• Keen interest in the Criminal Justice System
• Willingness to work with offenders to help turn their lives around

Benefits

• Opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways
• 25 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays
• Option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost

Important Details

• Team: other Recovery Workers, an Advanced Recovery Practitioner, overseen by the Criminal Justice Team Leader
• Travel: throughout Leicestershire to county hubs and co-location with the Probation Service; required to use own car to travel between sites on a daily basis (expenses provided)

About the Company

Turning Point is a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England. It runs all services on a not-for-profit basis, investing every penny back into services and people, and works to improve the lives of the people it supports.