About the Role
Our team in Rotherham are recruiting for a Schools Liaison Worker, to establish and maintain positive relationships between WithYou and schools/education providers, young people and their parents/carers. If you are passionate about promoting our services to young people, through community based support, information, training and education, we’d love to hear from you.
Job Opportunity
This is a key role in our work with young people and their families, in order to ensure they have visibility and understanding of the work that we do. Your expertise will be instrumental in building effective relationships with key contacts and delivery partners to maximise promotional opportunities and creating essential links with local schools and educational settings to increase referral numbers into our service. With your strong background in working with young people, you’ll help us to coordinate the delivery of an effective school resilience education package and will organise open events and awareness days. This is a varied and hands-on role that will help to reach young people in our communities and engage them effectively with our services.
Essential Skills
To successfully carry out this role you will need:
* Strong background in working with young people and their families, including delivery group work
* The ability to delivery engaging presentations and workshops
* A full UK driving licence and access to a car, to enable you to travel to different sites within the area
* Experience of working in partnership with a range of statutory and non-statutory children’s agencies
* Knowledge of drugs and alcohol issues and their impact upon young people and their families
* Exceptional organisational skills
A full job description and person specification is available on request by contacting recruitment@wearewithyou.org.uk
This is a term time only role that is Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2026. The position is 30 hours of work per week, working 6 hours per day Monday to Friday.
The FTE salary for this position is £25,000 per annum pro rata, therefore your salary would be £17,540 per annum.
About Company
WithYou provides free and confidential support, without judgement, to more than 100,000 people every year experiencing challenges with drugs, alcohol and mental health across England and Scotland.
Our name reflects who we are – a positive place where people can progress, connect with others and get friendly, expert help in a way that’s right for them.
Our staff team changes lives. If you’re passionate about helping people get the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol and mental health, we’d love to hear from you.
DE&I
As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring, and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people, people of all ages and armed forces veterans.
As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role.
WithYou is also a Disability Confident Employer, and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.
Benefits
* Enhanced annual leave, plus bank holidays
* An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
* 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
* Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
* Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
* Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
* We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period