Prison Release Recovery Worker (Maternity Cover until 12/08/2026) Location: Shepherd''s Bush Salary: £28,207 Vacancy Type: Permanent Advertising End Date: 16 Feb 2026 Roles Responsibilities The Substance Misuse Service at HMP Wormwood Scrubs is commissioned to deliver psychosocial interventions within an integrated healthcare framework known as the New Models of Care (NMOC). The team work in close partnership with healthcare services to deliver services across various functions including Early Days in Custody (EDiC), unscheduled care, planned care, release and resettlement. The service is based on site within the prison delivering interventions directly to service users aged 18 and over residing at HMP Wormwood Scrubs. This is a closed category men s prison in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, West London. Checks will require you to provide information on the below: Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history) Your family (parents, parents partners, siblings, partner(s), children) Co-residents Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service. Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates Credit reference checks Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that''s publicly available on the internet to ensure there''s nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison s