Are you ready to take the next step in your career? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Practitioner Role within our creative and dynamic team at North Yorkshire Horizons Northallerton. If you are passionate about leading a dedicated team and ensuring top-notch performance and compliance, this role is for you Lead Practitioner North Yorkshire Horizons is a service made up of several key partners, led by Humankind, enabling the development of a peer led, recovery community. Providing a safe environment in which people can develop the life skills, and confidence to achieve and maintain recovery and abstinence from their substance misuse, successfully re-integrate into society, and become active, contributing citizens. About the role Location: 5 The Applegarth, Northallerton, DL7 8LZ Working hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm with one late night on a Wednesday until 8pm, on a rota basis. You will make an impact, play a pivotal role in maintaining the highest standards of performance and compliance within our services. Supporting the Project/Area Manager to develop, deliver, monitor and improve processes, control systems and work environments to meet quality requirements and contractual needs including KPIs. The purpose of the role is to manage the day to day functioning and performance of a designated service team and area of specialist service delivery to ensure a positive working environment is maintained and a quality service is delivered. You will be required to supervise a team that provides holistic packages of support to adult service users, empowering them to move through the integrated recovery-oriented substance misuse service, increasing opportunities for service users to achieve sustainable treatment outcomes within Northallerton and its surrounding areas. As directed by the Project Manager, the Lead Practitioner will be an integral member of this dynamic multi agency service. About you A relevant level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care or higher. Experience supervising a team. An understanding of and ability to implement evidenced based interventions, including brief interventions MI, PSIs, CBT and ITEP. Experience of working with drug/alcohol users and delivering 1-2-1 and group evidence based interventions. Experience of completing service user assessments including comprehensive risk assessments. A full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle is required for this role. Join our Dynamic Environment and work in a creative and supportive atmosphere where your contributions truly matter. We are seeking an individual who thrives in a busy team environment, leading a passionate team. To view the full job description and person specification, please click here. Please be advised, if you are viewing this role on Indeed, the link to the job description will not work. Please click the 'Apply via Company Website' button to be redirected to our careers page, where you will be able to view the job description in full. The salary advertised above demonstrates the full earning potential for this role, starting salaries will allow for pay progression within the pay band. Who are we… Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves. We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report here to read more about the important work that we have done. What can Humankind offer you… Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service) Annual leave purchase scheme Enhanced occupational sick pay %Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension Death in service benefit Free Will writing Eyecare vouchers Blue light card discount Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses Work-life balance- flexible working and family friendly policies Happy, Healthy You – our wellbeing offers for our workforce Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks Humankind is an equal opportunities employer We value unique perspectives and experiences that everyone can bring, and fully understand the strength in diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. If you have a genuine passion for working for us, we want to hear for you. We also welcome applications from people with lived experience with substance use. If you require support with your application, please contact the Recruitment Team at people.recruitmenthumankindcharity.org.uk