Job Summary
Do you want to make a difference to young people with drug and alcohol issues?
The Role
Come and join our New Beginnings service in Cheshire West and Chester, working with a motivated, supportive, and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals.
This rewarding and exciting role is key in ensuring that effective, efficient, and appropriate care is planned, and managed, well for young people who use our services and that this care achieves a positive impact to their recovery.
There is significant travel and peripatetic outreach including into fixed youth provision settings in the evening (for example youth centres).
You will:
1. Undertake early-intervention and prevention work in a variety of youth settings to prevent the progression of substance misuse and associated anti-social and risk-taking behaviour, including sexual exploitation.
2. Enable young people to develop healthy boundaries, emotional resilience and build self-esteem, providing harm reduction prevention advice, guidance and education.
3. Enable people to access education, employment, health, wellbeing and recovery activities - promoting a culture of positive occupation of time.
4. Work alongside the Early Help and Prevention Service in Cheshire West and Chester - engaging with the wider youth service team and other stakeholder.
5. Support the day-to-day delivery of excellent drug and alcohol services to those and their significant others, including family members friends and carers.
There is an expectation the successful candidate will need to work across our three service hubs, the wider North-West, as well as occasional travel to our head office in London.
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
To find out more about our service, visit New Beginnings in Cheshire West and Chester.
For an informal discussion about the position, or if you would like to visit the service, please contact Jane Murphy, Service Manager on .
Please do not re-apply if you have previously applied to the same role within the last 6-12 months.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 30 June at midnight.
We only accept applications via using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit. 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.