The Role You will have experience of working within substance misuse and have criminal justice knowledge or a related Health and Social Care setting. This role will be co-located within probation offices as part of Dependence and Recovery to improve continuity of care upon release from prison, you will case manage clients on probation alongside Probation Practitioners. The role will require you to: • assess the needs of clients. • deliver effective interventions. • complete detailed reports • work closely with our criminal justice and other partner agencies. An empathetic and non-judgemental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours, and many difficult to engage clients. The Service Via Kingston is an established, integrated community service that delivers provision for the Borough. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial elements and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV and health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as having family and carers and service user involvement provision. Together we offer a wide range of pharmacological, psychosocial, recovery-orientated, health focused and inpatient interventions that support individuals and their families who wish to receive advice, assessment, and treatment for their drug and/ or alcohol related needs. Via Kingston is an established community service that is well performing and highly functioning. We are a friendly team of professionals who support each other. The service operates Mon- Fri, our core hours 9am to 5pm but there are times where we might need to work occasional evenings or weekends. To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package For an informal chat about the role please contact Anil Chatterjee, Criminal Justice Team Manager via [email protected] or 07561 105350 / 0300 303 4614. The closing date for applications is Sunday 30 June at midnight. Interviews are likely to take place on Friday 5 July.