Advanced Practitioner - Family Specialist

Occy; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

WithYou Glasgow is seeking an Advanced Practitioner – Family Specialism to provide specialist leadership and support to strengthen family-focused practice across its services.

The post promotes a whole-family approach, recognising the impact of substance use on children, parents and wider family networks, supporting service users to build and maintain positive family relationships as part of their recovery journey.

Qualifications

• Advanced substance misuse knowledge and/or experience in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Therapeutic Family Recovery Groups: develop and deliver family-focused recovery groups within each Hub.
• Family Learning Clubs: establish and facilitate clubs to build knowledge and confidence around family wellbeing and recovery.
• Partnership Working: act as link worker for local family support services and partner agencies.
• Direct Practice: maintain a small, specialist caseload with complex family-related needs.
• Safeguarding Leadership: provide guidance to colleagues on safeguarding matters.
• Workforce Development: upskill staff to embed trauma-informed, family-inclusive practice.
• Lead gender-specific interventions and champion gender-responsive approaches.
• Champion a culture of family-inclusive recovery across WithYou Glasgow.

Job description

This Advanced Practitioner role is specifically designed for those with advanced substance misuse knowledge and/or experience of working in a relevant field.

The Advanced Practitioner – Family Specialism will provide specialist leadership and support to strengthen family-focused practice across WithYou Glasgow services. The post will promote a whole-family approach, recognising the impact of substance use on children, parents and wider family networks, supporting service users to build and maintain positive family relationships as part of their recovery journey.

Our vibrant and busy services across Glasgow provide support to people concerned about their own or someone else's alcohol or drug use. We have three Recovery Hubs (in North East, North West and South Glasgow), however much of our work is carried out in the local community. We work with people at all stages on their journey providing both one to one appointments and group work.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Therapeutic Family Recovery Groups: Develop and deliver therapeutic family-focused recovery groups within each Hub, supporting service users to explore family relationships, parenting, family wellbeing and the impact of substance use. Sessions will incorporate the SHANARRI wellbeing indicators and My World Triangle framework.
• Family Learning Clubs: Establish and facilitate Family Learning Clubs, providing opportunities for service users and families to develop knowledge, skills and confidence around family wellbeing, relationships and recovery.
• Partnership Working: Act as the key link worker for local family support services and partner agencies, strengthening referral pathways, improving access to support and promoting joined-up, consistent responses for families.
• Direct Practice: Maintain a small, specialist caseload, providing focused assessment, support and interventions for individuals and families with more complex family-related needs.
• Safeguarding Leadership: Provide guidance, advice and support to colleagues on safeguarding matters, helping to build staff confidence, knowledge and competence in identifying and responding to safeguarding concerns.
• Workforce Development: Upskill and support staff across the Hubs to embed family-inclusive, trauma-informed and child-centred practice, ensuring that the needs and voices of children and families remain central to service delivery.
• Lead the development, implementation and delivery of gender-specific interventions, ensuring treatment provision is responsive to the differing needs and experiences of women, men and people of diverse gender identities accessing the recovery hub.
• Champion and embed gender-responsive and trauma-informed approaches across the service, providing specialist guidance, staff development and support to ensure treatment is inclusive, accessible and responsive to individual needs and barriers to recovery.

The role will champion a culture of family-inclusive recovery across WithYou Glasgow, ensuring that families are recognised as an integral part of the recovery process and that children and young people are supported to be safe, healthy and able to thrive.

This role is full time and permanent, working 37.5 hours over 7 days, evening and weekend working may be required

As an Advanced Practitioner we offer a starting salary of £28,325 per annum rising each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, rising to £32,960 per annum. For further details please reach out to a member of the recruitment team via [e-mail].

We’re looking for a compassionate and motivated individual with advanced knowledge and/or experience within the substance use sector or a relevant specialist setting, with an exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships with individuals and families.

You will have a strong understanding of the impact of substance use on children, parents and wider family networks, alongside experience or knowledge of developing and delivering family-focused interventions and supporting positive family relationships. You will be confident providing specialist guidance and support to colleagues, particularly around safeguarding, family-inclusive practice and trauma-informed approaches.

You will be highly organised, have excellent communication and partnership-working skills, being able to manage your time effectively. You will be passionate about developing and embedding high-quality, inclusive and gender-responsive practice, ensuring that the needs and voices of individuals, children and families remain central to service delivery. Above all, we are looking for someone who can provide specialist leadership, inspire and support colleagues, and champion a whole-family approach to recovery.

We are looking for an Advanced Practitioner to join WithYou in Glasgow.

Are you a compassionate and motivated individual who wants to change people’s lives? Our team in Glasgow is looking for an Advanced Practitioner - if you are enthusiastic, creative and passionate about helping others, we’d love to hear from you.

As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year. Find out more about us on our website.

The closing date for this position is 7th December 2026; however please note that this role may close early should sufficient applications be received, so early application is advised.