Young Persons Substance Misuse - Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

Join our passionate team and help children, young people and families improve their health, wellbeing and life opportunities. As a Young Persons Substance Misuse - Health & Wellbeing Practitioner within Compass Safe East, you will provide support to children, young people and families across Tower Hamlets. The service offers advice, guidance and interventions on a wide range of health and wellbeing topics including emotional wellbeing, healthy lifestyles, relationships, school challenges, substance misuse and access to specialist support.

Using a person‑centred and trauma‑informed approach, you will undertake assessments, develop support plans and deliver one‑to‑one and group interventions. Working across schools, community settings and partner organisations, you will help young people build resilience, improve wellbeing and access the support they need to thrive. You will play an important role in delivering prevention and early intervention work while collaborating with families and professionals to achieve positive outcomes.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Experience working with children and young people.
• Experience supporting young people with emotional wellbeing, health, substance misuse or related needs.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, risk assessment and child development.
• Experience working collaboratively with families, professionals and partner agencies.
• Excellent communication, engagement and relationship building skills.
• The ability to manage a varied caseload and maintain accurate records.
• A flexible, compassionate and solution focused approach.
• A qualification in youth work, social work, psychology, counselling, mental health, substance misuse or a related field is essential.
• Experience delivering health promotion, prevention or early intervention programmes would be helpful but is not essential.

Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school‑aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives. All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.

We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.

Benefits:

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
• Life assurance at 2× basic salary
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OHS service
• Enhanced sick pay
• Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
• Annual salary review

Help us to make a positive change to the lives of children and young people!