Children and Young People's Substance Misuse Worker (Denbighshire and Conwy) (23910)

Are you ready for a new challenge? Do you have interest in working with children, young people and their families within Social Care?

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join Barnardo's as a Project Worker 1 at the Children and Young People's Substance Use Service, Cyfle Barnardo's Cymru Service, a multi-disciplinary team which works in partnership with other service providers through a variety of settings across Denbighshire and Conwy local authority areas.

Driving essential: This contract spans the two local authorities, Denbighshire and Conwy. Due to the rurality of the area, it is not logistically possible to undertake this role using public transport and we will be unable to meet the needs of the contract unless driving is essential to the role.

What is the Children & Young People's Substance Use Service?

This post will provide Tier 1 targeted prevention & Tier 2 brief intervention services for children and young people in relation to drug and alcohol use by delivering group and 1-to-1 services in a variety of settings.

What does the Job Role involve?

You will undertake a range of early help interventions, which meet the needs of children and young people up to the age of 25 years, who are at risk of or actively using substances.

You will do this by assessing the needs of children and young people referred to the service and participate in the planning of programmes to meet those needs.

Your duties will include:

• Offering support, advice and assistance to children, young people and families referred to the service on a 1:1 and group basis.
• Delivering group work interventions to support children and young people to develop the skills they require as outlined in their support plan.
• Delivering targeted prevention and brief intervention programmes to support children and young people to build upon their skills and confidence to look after their own and families' well-being.
• Identifying a range of community-based activities that children and young people can access.
• Accessing community resources and working with other professionals and agencies to ensure all resources available to children and young people are utilised.
• Acting as a single point of access for Primary, Secondary schools and Pupil Referral Units.
• Sharing in the responsibility of assessing the risks that children and young people pose to themselves and others and developing plans to meet those needs.
• Supporting professionals by coaching to develop sample drug and alcohol session plans and to increase their awareness of substance misuse.
• Enabling children and young people to identify their goals and achieve change.

You will have:

• Relevant experience of substance use and misuse face-to-face advice work with children and young people.
• Experience of multi-agency partnership working.
• Knowledge of issues facing children and young people where alcohol/substances are an issue.
• Knowledge of drug and alcohol use/effects and harm reduction advice.
• Knowledge of issues relating to risk of harm to others and self.
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures and legislation.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all times with the general public and professionals.
• Ability to work evenings or weekends by arrangement on an occasional basis if required.
• Ability to travel throughout the Locality in order to meet the requirements of the post.
• Ability to communicate in the medium of Welsh (D).

Need more information?

If you require any further information about this opportunity, please contact Rachel Axon on 07849 304199 or Glen Ellis on 07590625843

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

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