Young People Peripatetic Case Worker

Would you like to work with a motivated and well-established team to deliver key interventions to Young People with drug and alcohol misuse needs?

The Role

We are looking for a dynamic and committed individual to join our New Beginnings service in Cheshire West and Chester, working with a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals.

This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is planned, and managed, well for service users and that this care achieves a positive impact to the recovery of the individual.

The role will include significant travel and peripatetic outreach including into fixed youth provision settings in the evening (for example youth centres).

You will:

• 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.
• Enable Young People to develop healthy boundaries, emotional resilience and build self-esteem, providing harm reduction prevention advice, guidance and education.
• Enable service users to access education, employment, health, wellbeing and recovery activities - promoting a culture of positive occupation of time.
• Work alongside the Early Help and Prevention Service in Cheshire West and Chester - engaging with the wider youth service team and other stakeholder.
• Support the day-to-day delivery of excellent drug and alcohol services to service users and their significant others, including family members friends and carers.
• Late evening work within youth clubs.
• You will need to be able to travel across our 3 services Ellesmere Port/Chester and Northwich and surrounding areas of Cheshire West & Chester.

There is an expectation for the successful candidate to be able 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 James Hunter Team Leader on James.Hunter@viaorg.uk or 07367 287234.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 24 March at midnight.

We only accept applications via http://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/ using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit http://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. 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.

Please email people@viaorg.uk if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.