Young Person's Practitioner

Job Summary Would you like to help improve the health and wellbeing of those with drug and alcohol issues? The Role The Young People’s Practitioner will be part of our dynamic and exciting Young People’s service in Redbridge. We are looking for someone who is motivated to ensure people who use our services achieve the best possible outcomes. You will deliver early intervention and prevention work and provide specialist drug and alcohol treatment for young people to: Prevent young people from engaging in substance misusing and risk-taking behaviours. Enable young people to develop boundaries, emotional resilience and self-esteem. Actively support young people to reduce and/or stop harmful behaviours such as drug and alcohol consumption, encouraging prosocial and heathy alternatives, You will bring passion and enthusiasm alongside a commitment to working to support young people and their families, you will carry a caseload of young people and will be required to: Provide full comprehensive assessment, care planning and risk management. Deliver brief interventions, resilience training and harm minimisation. Involve and support families and carers of YP accessing the service. Liaise with and work in partnership with key agencies and stakeholders including the YOS, CAMHS, social services, schools and colleges. Deliver structured group work to young people. Location The role is predominantly based interchangeably between Barkingside and Ilford Chambers, and will involve travel to schools and satellites within the borough. 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 Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. For an informal chat about the role please contact Shante Dublin, Team Leader via The closing date for applications is Sunday 28 July 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.