Young Person's Resilience Worker - Huddersfield, United Kingdom - Kirklees Council

Kirklees Council

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Huddersfield, United Kingdom

2 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Organisations

Change Grow Live

Hours

37.50

Number of Jobs

Location(s)

Huddersfield and surrounding areas

Position type

Permanent

Salary

CGL points : £26, £30,316.74

Kirklees Council are advertising this role on behalf of Change Grow Live
:

Overview:

Following an expansion of the team, The Base are excited to advertise the role of Young Person's Resilience Worker - Transitional Lead Young Adults.

The Base Kirklees are a confidential drug and alcohol service for young people aged up to the age of 21.

We offer advice and support to young people in who are experiencing problems with drugs and alcohol. This support offered includes specialist care planned interventions, brief interventions, targeted group work, outreach, and training.

The service works in a holistic way and works closely with local partners in ensuring a multi-agency approach to supporting children and young people.

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Young Person's Resilience worker who will hold lead responsibilities in relation to supporting the transition of young people into adulthood including throughout their journey from children's services into adult services.

The post-holder's focus will be to work proactively with young people to help address their substance misuse needs and alongside this, they will help forge strong working relationships and pathways with local adult support services including social care, drug and alcohol treatment, mental health and criminal justice, to help coordinate a joined-up approach to substance use and other identified needs.

The successful applicant with therefore possess excellent engagement skills and possess the ability to work in partnership with other services and share their knowledge through the delivery of training around substance misuse to other professionals.

We are looking for a creative and dynamic individual who enjoys working within a busy team.

The ability to work to a high degree of accuracy and meet deadlines amongst competing priorities is vital in this position.

In return, we offer an incredibly rewarding role within a supportive and nurturing service that promotes the continuous professional development of its staff.

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority.

We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.

Closing date
26 March 2023, 11:55 PM