Band 6 Deputy Team Leader - HMP Birmingham, Substance Misuse Service

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the appointment of a Deputy Team Leader) within HMP Birmingham to join Birmingham Recovery Team. We are looking to recruit highly motivated individuals who are passionate about providing high quality and compassionate care within a unique environment.

Birmingham Recovery Team provides the clinical substance misuse service at HMP Birmingham and the role involves assessing, planning, and treating prisoners who come into custody with substance/addictions related issues.

As an integrated healthcare service, we work collaboratively with the Psychosocial team, Primary Care and Mental Health teams. It is an exciting time for the team here and we need a dynamic and eager person to join the team, bringing fresh ideas and a willingness to evolve the service.

This role will provide the candidate with the opportunity to gain experience at leadership and management level- including staff supervision and support. As you may know this is a very busy time of change within the prison, an opportunity for us to maximise on those changes to make our own. This is an opportunity to be a part of those changes at a management level.

The successful candidates will need excellent communication and organisational skills and setting their own work agenda in line with the job role and Trust and local HMPPS policies.