Youth Wellbeing & Family Support Worker

Change Grow Live; England; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Wellness hour

Contributory pension

Discounts

Friendly team

Training & progression

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Job summary

Change Grow Live in Buckinghamshire is recruiting a Children and Family Worker to support children and young people under 18 affected by someone else’s drug and/or alcohol use. You will work one-to-one in a confidential space delivering interventions through activities, games, arts and wellbeing resources, using a young person-centred approach.

You will liaise with other services to provide holistic support, record information accurately, and flexibly work across sites.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with young people and knowledge of the issues they face
• Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to children and young people and the Fraser Competence framework
• Have an excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field
• Knowledge of working with evidence-based practice around young people’s substance misuse treatment services and methods, including relevant best practice guidance
• An accomplished communicator, both verbal and written with a high degree of personal IT competency
• Be able to accurately update and maintain records and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g., reports
• Have excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives

Responsibilities

• To holistically support CYP affected by parental substance misuse, using a range of interventions including group work, 11 work, whole family interventions, safety planning and safeguarding working closely and proactively with the family unit to support positive and sustainable outcomes.
• Identify families in conjunction with other agencies, who will benefit from a Think Family / Whole family approach, negotiating participation and engagement with the programme of care.
• Identifying and responding effectively to potential safeguarding issues.
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to young people and the wider community.
• Working with young people to support positive, holistic outcomes in relation to their health and wellbeing, enabling them to lead safe, healthy, and purposeful lives reducing risk and increasing resilience
• Working flexibly across sites where required

Job description

Change Grow Live in Buckinghamshire is recruiting a Children and Family Worker to support children and young people under 18 affected by someone else’s drug and/or alcohol use. You will work one-to-one in a confidential space delivering interventions through activities, games, arts and wellbeing resources, using a young person-centred approach.

You will liaise with other services to provide holistic support, record information accurately, and flexibly work across sites.