Role: Family Worker (Substance Misuse)
Location: Banbury
Salary: £16 - £19 phr UMB (FTE salary £25,250 - £30,000)
Hours: 35 hours
Duration: Temp/Temp - Perm
Synopsis of duties:
* To support children aged 8-18 who are affected by parental substance misuse or support parents/guardians affected by their child's substance misuse.
* To carry a combined caseload of both complex young people and their families across targeted areas of Oxfordshire (North).
* Working in a trauma-informed approach, providing specialist assessment, care planning, and interventions around drug and alcohol use.
* Deliver evidence-based psychosocial and educational interventions to children and families, taking a whole family approach to the problem of parental substance use across Oxfordshire.
* To engage with young people and their families in various settings such as children’s centres, drop-in, schools, colleges, and homes, providing assessment, advice, and guidance from designated settings across Oxfordshire.
* Support families to achieve outcomes including improvement in family dynamics, resilience, and communication.
* Contribute to the service’s whole family trauma-informed practice and psychologically informed environments.
Requirements:
* Experience of client work with children and young people, families, and drug/alcohol users.
* Experience of using strengths-based assessment tools and delivering a range of therapeutic skills and interventions to facilitate behaviour change.
* Experience of completing and reviewing support plans.
* Experience in group facilitation.
* Experience working as part of a multi-agency framework.
* Enhanced DBS on the update service or dated within the last 12 months.
* Valid UK driving licence with access to a vehicle.
Supporting Futures act as both an employer and agency.
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