Young Person's Practitioner

Via Westminster Drug Project; Ilford; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading community service as a Young People’s Practitioner, dedicated to improving health and wellbeing for young individuals dealing with substance misuse. You'll engage in prevention and support, helping them build resilience and make positive choices, while collaborating with families and professionals. This rewarding position offers a chance to make a real difference in the lives of young people in Redbridge.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Financial perks

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering interventions and support to young people.
• Knowledge of substance misuse and its impact on young people.
• Ability to work collaboratively with families and other agencies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver early intervention and specialist drug and alcohol treatment for young people.
• Manage a caseload and provide assessments, care planning, and risk management.
• Deliver structured group work and liaise with key agencies.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Problem Solving

Organizational Skills

Teamwork

Education

Relevant qualification in health or social care

Job description

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Would you like to help improve the health and wellbeing of those with drug and alcohol issues?

The Role

The Young People’s Practitioner will be part of our dynamic and exciting Young People’s service in Redbridge. We are looking for someone who is motivated to ensure that people who use our services achieve the best possible outcomes.

You will deliver early intervention and prevention work and provide specialist drug and alcohol treatment for young people to:

• Prevent young people from engaging in substance misuse and risk-taking behaviours.
• Enable young people to develop boundaries, emotional resilience, and self-esteem.
• Actively support young people to reduce and/or stop harmful behaviours such as drug and alcohol consumption, encouraging prosocial and healthy alternatives.

You will bring passion and enthusiasm alongside a commitment to working to support young people and their families. You will carry a caseload of young people and will be required to:

• Provide full comprehensive assessment, care planning, and risk management.
• Deliver brief interventions, resilience training, and harm minimisation.
• Involve and support families and carers of young people accessing the service.
• Liaise with and work in partnership with key agencies and stakeholders including the YOS, CAMHS, social services, schools, and colleges.
• Deliver structured group work to young people.

Location

The role is predominantly based interchangeably between Barkingside and Ilford Chambers, and will involve travel to schools and satellites within the borough.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks, and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Shante Dublin, Team Leader.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 28 July at midnight.

We only accept applications via our application form; sorry, we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application, visit our website. Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs. Please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.

Appointment to all our posts is subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks, including DBS, and we follow safer recruiting principles.