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Resettlement Case Worker

Reference: NOV20184903
Expiry date: 2018-11-21 23:59:00.000
Location: Milton Keynes, HMP Woodhill
Salary: £20,000.00 - £24,000.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Excellent Benefts
Attachments: ResettlementCaseWorker-HMPWoodhill.pdf
ResettlementCaseWorker-JobDescription.pdf
Milton Keynes College have an exciting opportunity for a Resettlement Case Manager to join our team at HMP Woodhill. This is an excellent opportunity to apply your experience in health and substance misuse pathways within the Criminal Justice System to support resettlement and deliver effective action plans. You will receive mandatory training from the prison, Thames Valley CRC and Milton Keynes College to become a case management practitioner.

As a successful Resettlement Case Worker, you will work alongside the substance misuse and healthcare teams to support resettlement through the Thames Valley Community Rehabilitation Services for prisoners entering and leaving custody. As the Case Manager, you will use motivational goal setting skills to support service user participation and develop new services, in partnership with the existing providers.

The Resettlement team provides, coordinates and allocates through the gate (TTG) sentence plans for prisoners who are entering or preparing for release into the community. We complete the online records associated with their sentence planning and manage a caseload of prisoners, tracking agreed milestones and planning interventions around employment, health, accommodation or education and support resettlement.

Resettlement Case Worker - Health and Substance misuse
Location: HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK4 4DA
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Salary: £20,000 - £24,000 per annum
Closing date for applications: 21st November 2018

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25 days annual leave, 3 additional days leave for Christmas to New Year closure and UK Bank Holidays
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Access to an employee wellbeing platform with options to book free activities such as yoga, relaxation, boot camp, personal training and a health and wellbeing news hub
Access to Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions
Tax free childcare scheme
Access to Continued Professional Development, including professional qualifications and a variety of training courses
Save up to 32% off all bikes through our Cycle To Work Scheme
24 hours per day, 365 days per year Employee Assistant Support Programme
Plus many more…


About HMP Woodhill:

HMP Woodhill Prison is situated in Milton Keynes and will be categorized as a local category B prison in Spring 2019. HMP Woodhill has the capacity to hold over 700 offenders all serving a range of sentences from remand to life, with the average length of stay between 3 and 6 months.
In the Resettlement team we help prisoners across the 7 pathways to reduce reoffending and offer practical support in preparation for release. We engage the hardest to reach prisoners and encourage them to take pride in their own education and self-development. As a department, we endeavour to inspire learners to achieve and plan for a positive future.

As a successful candidate, you will:

Provide service users with resettlement action planning using the online Basic Custody Screening Tool (BCST) using fast accurate keyboard skills and databases
Work on the wings, and with other services proactively in custody and in community to meet service user needs across mandated services including Health and substance misuse programmes and enable access to healthcare and service providers in the community
Deliver and support inductions, pre-release workshops and “Getting it Right” training sessions
Rigorously track, review and facilitate action plans to meet individual needs and record them on MOJ systems
Demonstrate fast accurate keyboard skills and office organisation skills particularly MS office, Excel and experience with databases
Promote a positive approach to securing support, develop well-being initiatives and identifying employment opportunities for disadvantaged groups or offenders
Manage accurate data & case loads, delivering against deadlines and meet project targets
Possess professional written and verbal communication skills and an eye for detail.
Develop experience of working with disadvantaged people, offenders, healthcare or substance misuse programmes.
Demonstrate evidence of continuous personal/professional development.
Show good communication and motivational skills across a broad range of resource types, skills and backgrounds.
Show a proactive resolution of risks and confidentiality; demonstrate flexibility and a ‘can do’ attitude.
Demonstrate commitment to a high professional and personal standard of work and conduct
Have a commitment to equality of opportunity and widening access to education and employment for all.
Have professional Skills for Life (literacy, numeracy and language) and be willing to develop these further.


More about the College:

Milton Keynes College is proud to be an open and inclusive general Further Education College welcoming learners of all levels and delivering an exceptional educational experience. The College offers a broad range of qualifications with more than 3,000 16 – 18-year-old full-time students studying traditional A Levels, vocational courses, apprenticeships and Higher Education. In addition, the College delivers employability and key skills training programmes to 3,000 people in local community learning centres and is one of the largest providers of Offender Learning in England, working with 27 prisons across the East Midlands, South Central and West Midlands.