Company:
CV-Library
Location: High Wycombe
Closing Date: 19/10/2024
Salary: £21 - £22 Per Hour
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Here at Red Sector Recruitment we are currently seeking a Young Peoples Drug and Alcohol Worker for our client located in High Wycombe.
This position is a temporary contract to start ASAP for an initial 3 months.
Working Hours are Full Time Monday to Friday 09:00-17:00.
The hourly rate to be negotiated between £21-22 an hour via an Umbrella. PAYE Available.
* To carry a case load of young people, and young adults (up to 25) working in a trauma informed approach to provide specialist assessment, care planning, brief, structured or comprehensive interventions around alcohol and other drugs
* To support the involvement of the young person’s voice in the service.
* To build the resilience and coping skills of children and young people whose parents or other family members using drugs or alcohol
* To contribute to reducing the negative impacts of drugs and alcohol on children and young people’s educational achievement, longer term employment prospects and their overall health and wellbeing
* Deliver evidence based psychosocial and educational interventions, taking a whole family approach, providing support to young people as a result of familial substance use
* Gather and complete mandatory data collection to report to National Drug Treatment Monitoring Service
* To work closely with targeted youth support teams and other partners including Oxfordshire children and family centres to achieve the best outcomes
* To engage with young people and their families in various settings such as children and family centres, drop-ins, schools, colleges, and homes and local community venues
* Be pro-active with service user engagement, providing opportunities for young people to make decisions, have a say and influence/shape their care and service delivery
An Enhanced Adults and Childrens DBS will be required prior to starting
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