Substance Misuse Worker Portsmouth, South East England, England
Job description
Substance Misuse Worker (tier 3) - secondment/fixed term opportunity until the 31 March 2025 due to funding
Salary: Band: 7, £27,852 - £32,020 p.a.
Do you have substantial experience of working with young people in a range of settings?
The Drug & Alcohol Support Service are looking for substance misuse workers to join their team. The Service aims to improve outcomes for young people aged up to 19yrs and up to 25yrs for care leaving young people with learning difficulties and disabilities. We do this through providing substance use interventions with young people, also providing Information, Advice and Guidance for a range of issues as appropriate. We support vulnerable young people who are at risk or future risk of further issues such as exploitation, offending, teenage pregnancy and homelessness
Your New Role
As a Substance Use Worker with DASS (Drug & Alcohol Support Service) this role will be providing substance misuse interventions for young people at a Drug & Alcohol Tier 3 level with some interventions at Tier 2 level when required.
Work will range from:
- 1:1 assessments and interventions with young people experiencing substance use/misuse concerns
- You will contribute to key multi-agency meetings e.g. Child in Need/Child Protection
- Contribute to networks to support health improvement and local community development
- Occasional targeted session delivery and education (Tier 2) and recording of data for numbers of young people receiving this support
- Supporting/co-ordinating campaigns and events to ensure young people receive information advice and guidance through both outreach and promotional work
- Supporting colleagues offering expert advice and guidance in a variety of settings
- Work with young people and stakeholders to collate their views with regards to substance use services for young people
- Supporting working in a new 'hub' for young people, working on a rota for one evening per week.
- Delivering training to the Portsmouth workforce when required
- Support delivery of the work at a 'hub' for young people
You may be required to work some evenings due to the nature of the role within youth settings and to support young people who may be employed. There may be a requirement to work the occasional weekend to participate in any events.
What you'll need to succeed
As well as substantial experience of working with young people, you will have a nationally recognised qualification (equivalent to NVQ level 4 or higher) in the Health, Youth, Community, Social Care or Education field. In addition you will have experience of identifying and responding effectively to potential safeguarding issues as of working within clear boundaries
Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. It is also committed to promoting quality childcare across the City that works to improve outcomes for children.
DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Children’s Board safer recruitment procedures.
If applying as a secondment you will need permission from your current line manager releasing you for this secondment. Please state you have this on your application form.
When completing the application form, please thoroughly tailor your application to the 'Who is the Person' points with the use of examples from your experience and attach this as a cover letter in the Supporting Documents section. This is really important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please click here for the full job profile!
Closing date: 10th March 2023
Please note that the interview process is in 2 stages. If you are short listed for interview the first part of the process will be a formal interview with a work related exercise. If successful from the interview you will then move on to a second stage where you will spend some time at a youth project meeting, interacting and meeting with young people.
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- A generous pension scheme
- Up to 31 days annual leave per year (from 2023)+ bank holidays
- Flexible / hybrid working
- A range of retail discounts via our reward portal offering discounts at retailers including IKEA, Currys, Tesco
- Free Access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing support
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships
- Potential to purchase additional annual leave
- Business travel support and initiatives, including bike loans
