Young Person's Resilience Worker

• To engage young people in a range of interventions, utilising a young person centred approach, empowering them to reduce risk, increase resilience and lead a safe, happy and healthy lives.
• Supporting young people from point of entry into the service and through their support journey.
• Engage young people who are using substances and provide them with advice, support and structured interventions to support their health and wellbeing needs.
• Providing screening, assessment, psychosocial interventions, integrated care planning, post treatment support, including transfer of care.
• Identifying and responding effectively to potential safeguarding issues.
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to young people and the wider community.
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement.
• Carry out comprehensive young people's assessments and develop individual care plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing substance use and related outcomes.
• Working with young people to support positive, holistic outcomes in relation to their health and wellbeing, enabling them to lead safer and healthier lives: reducing risk and increasing resilience.
• Supporting and providing advocacy for young people by participating in all relevant multi agency meetings, for example: Child Protection meetings, Complex Case Review panels, etc.
• Networking and attending community events.
• Developing and delivering workshops and training for young people, professionals and other associated people, such as parents and carers.

• Experience of working with young people.
• Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to children and young people.
• Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
• Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency.
• Knowledge of working with evidence based practice around young people’s substance misuse treatment services and methods, including relevant best practice guidance.
• A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professionals to achieve good outcomes for the service user group.
• Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives.

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We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.