ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over, the Integrated Substance Misuse Service is designed to deliver a combination of clinical, Psychosocial Substance Misuse and Health and Wellbeing Interventions and Accredited Treatment Programmes for offenders coming into prison that are identified as having an alcohol or drug problem.
As a Peer Coordinator you will support the team and the prison to champion the integrated service and train service users to become peer supporters who deliver peer-led interventions and become peer supporters across all wings of the prison. You will also support and develop Health & Wellbeing Champions within the prisons. Their roles will be to motivate and encourage clients to start taking greater responsibility for their health and wellbeing whilst in custody, and they will discuss and share the issues which they are concerned about by signposting and supporting them to the relevant services within the prison, and with agreement from the prison deliver interventions to other peers.
The role is vital in improving the links between the integrated service and the service users within the prison. This role will be based on site working as part of the wider substance misuse services team. The role will operate over multiple prisons which may include HMP Bronzefield, HMP Send and HMP Coldingley therefore travel will be required. Flexibility will be required in this role and may include some evening/weekend shift working on rota basis and with reasonable notice.
Please note the location of the Prison is hard to get to via public transport so a car driver is preferred and this is a part time contract of 17.5 hours.