Young Person's Practitioner

Via; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A local youth outreach service is seeking a proactive individual to join their team in Ellesmere Port. This role involves providing early-intervention support to young people affected by substance misuse. The successful candidate will work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, focusing on engagement and education in various community settings. Ability to drive is essential for this role, which requires travel across the North-West. Interviews will be held the week commencing 18 August.

Qualifications

• Experience in youth settings or community services.
• Understanding of substance misuse issues.
• Ability to engage with young people effectively.

Responsibilities

• Undertake early-intervention and prevention work.
• Enable young people to develop healthy boundaries and self-esteem.
• Deliver outreach work to engage young people.

Skills

Proactive and committed individual

Ability to work independently

Strong communication skills

Team collaboration

Harm reduction advice

Job description

Join our dedicated team at New Beginnings in Cheshire West and Chester, where your work will help shape brighter futures for young people affected by drug and alcohol misuse.

The Role

We are looking for a proactive and committed individual, someone who can work independently but also part of a team to join our New Beginnings service in Cheshire West and Chester. You will be working with a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals to provide support, advise and interventions

This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is planned, and managed well for our Young People who access our service.

The role will include significant travel and peripatetic outreach including into fixed youth provision settings in the evening (for example youth centres).

You will:

• Undertake early-intervention and prevention work in a variety of youth settings/schools/community services to prevent the progression of substance misuse and associated anti-social and risk-taking behaviour, including sexual exploitation.
• Enable young people to develop healthy boundaries, emotional resilience and build self-esteem, providing harm reduction prevention advice, guidance and education.
• Enable people to access education, employment, health, wellbeing and recovery activities - promoting a culture of positive occupation of time.
• Work alongside the Early Help/Contextual Safeguarding Team and Prevention Service in Cheshire West and Chester - engaging with the wider youth service team and other stakeholder.
• Support the day-to-day delivery of excellent drug and alcohol services young people and their significant others, including family members friends and carers.
• Deliver peripatetic provision and outreach work to ensure that we engage all young people that need our services.

Location

There is an expectation for the successful candidate to be able to work across our three service hubs, the wider North-West. Ability to drive is essential.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 17 August at midnight.

Interviews will take week commencing 18 August.

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