Job Reference: JOB0075
Location: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
Salary: £27,720 - £31,542 per annum, including London Weighting where appropriate
Vacancy Type: Permanent/Full Time
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Application Deadline: Sunday, December 15, 2024
Job Summary
Come and join us as a Drug & Alcohol Practitioner – Family Safeguarding to make a difference improving the lives of children and families!
The Role
We are recruiting to a specialist Family Safeguarding Recovery Practitioner for this team. Being key members of the FSS team, you will provide brief advice and education to those with an identified substance misuse need, work to engage and re-engage them in structured treatment and work in partnership with the FSS multidisciplinary team.
You will be expected to deliver one to one and group work interventions to parents. Using Motivational Interviewing (MI) as a framework for practice in line with the FSS workbook alongside other appropriate evidence-based interventions.
You will be instrumental in supporting and engaging parents to access the wider i-access treatment pathway in line with their needs.
The Service
The Family Safeguarding Surrey (FSS) service sees specialist adult focussed practitioners, with expertise in domestic abuse, mental health, or substance misuse – integrated within children’s safeguarding teams – with the aim of providing comprehensive support.
The FSS is a multi-disciplinary model within Children’s Services which aims to improve the quality of work undertaken with families and thereby improving outcomes for children and parents.
i-access is an integrated service delivered in partnership by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust (SABP) and Via. It is commissioned to provide substance misuse treatment for people aged 18 and onwards within Surrey.
The substance misuse element of the FSS is a part of the Surrey i-access service, with specialist Family Safeguarding Recovery Practitioners collocated with children and family teams.
Location
The FSS serves parents in Surrey within 4 quadrants in line with Children and Families teams:
* Guildford
* Redhill
* Walton-on-Thames
* Woking
This role's location is across Surrey, therefore, due to the peripatetic nature and geographical area of this role, it is essential to have a driving licence.
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.
For an informal chat about the role, contact Titania May, Service Manager. Email: Titania.May@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 15 December at midnight.
We only accept applications via http://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/ using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit http://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. 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 are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.
Please email people@viaorg.uk if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.
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