Would you like to work with a motivated and well-established team to deliver high quality interventions to young people with drug and alcohol misuse needs?

We are looking for a proactive and committed individual, someone who can work independently but also part of a team to join our New Beginnings service in Cheshire West and Chester, Northwich and Ellesmere Port.

You will be working with a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals to provide support, advise and interventions

This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is planned, and managed well for our Young People who access our service.

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/schools/community services 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 them to access education, employment, health, wellbeing and recovery activities - promoting a culture of positive occupation of time.
• Work alongside the Early Help/Contextual Safeguarding Team 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 young people and their significant others, including family members friends and carers.
• Deliver peripatetic provision and outreach work to ensure that we engage all young people that need our services.

There is an expectation for the successful candidate to be able to work across our three service hubs, the wider North-West.

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 click the link below.