Service Manager

Adferiad Recovery delivers a new, flexible, and co-ordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse conditions and related issues. We harness the talents and experience of our founding and long-established leading Welsh Charities CAIS, Hafal, and WCADA in their fields, enabling our projects to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm, the hours are subject to prison regime and needs of service)
Salary: £26,923.79 per annum
Based at: HMP Cardiff
Job Purpose:
Leading and supporting the Substance Misuse Team at HMP Cardiff to deliver quality substance misuse services in accordance with service specifications and contract requirements. Provide support and guidance to caseworkers involved in assessment and care planning to identify and deliver the appropriate support and interventions to reduce risk of harm and support offender rehabilitation. Monitor caseworkers’ performance to ensure that accurate and comprehensive records/data collection is maintained.
Take a lead on the ongoing delivery and improvement of the recovery programme and contribute towards integrated treatment pathways and the identification of gaps in the system. Ensure that caseworkers are competent practitioners, able to provide accurate advice and information regarding substance use and associated lifestyle behaviours that reduces the risk of overdose, reduces the spread of Blood Borne Viruses, promotes healthy living, and minimises the potential risks and impact of drug related crime and disorder on the wider community.
The Dyfodol Service is an integrated partnership provision for South Wales and for the public sector prisons of HMP Cardiff, HMP Swansea, HMP Usk/Prescoed and including HMP Parc. The aim of the service is to address the causes of drug and/or alcohol related offending and risk of harm to individuals, families, peers and their communities through assessment, engagement and diverting individual offenders out of crime and into appropriate levels of interventions, support the reduction of drug and alcohol related misuse and reduce levels of offending, demonstrating evidence based best practice in all the Services.
The Service will include developing and sustaining close working relationships with a number of organisations to align to and support the work of the three Area Planning Boards (Western Bay, Cardiff the Vale and Cwm Taf). It will also provide support for adult offenders and prisoners who have a drug and/or alcohol dependency who reside within the 7 unitary local authority areas of South Wales (Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Bridgend, Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil).
Due to the nature of this post, the successful applicant will be subject to police checks and prison security clearance, in addition to enhanced Disclosure and Barring System checks, which must be maintained throughout employment in HM Prison Service.
If you are a motivated individual with excellent leadership skills and a passion for providing exceptional service, we want to hear from you! Join our team as a Service Manager at HMP Cardiff and take your career to the next level.
Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.
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