Family Safeguarding Senior Practitioner - West Berkshire, United Kingdom - WDP

WDP

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West Berkshire, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
West Berkshire

Salary
£28,891 - £29,368

Vacancy Type
Permanent/Full Time

Working Hours
37.5 hours per week

Application Deadline
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Job Summary

Would you like to join us in supporting those effected by drug and alcohol issues to improve their health and wellbeing?

The Role
Family safeguarding sees specialist adult-focused practitioners - with expertise substance misuse - integrated within children's safeguarding teams.

This exciting and rewarding role will provide you with significant scope for growth and innovation within WDP.

This exciting and rewarding new senior role will provide you with the opportunity to be part of this integrated team, carrying a reduced specialist caseload whilst also providing support, advise and oversight to your colleagues in the wider WDP West Berkshire Service in safeguarding caseloads and matters.

The role will involve:

Open Access Services and Harm Reduction

Providing expert advice and information and training to the multidisciplinary team.
Providing advice and information to parents/service users.
Provide harm reduction triage assessment, motivational interviewing and brief and extended interventions.

Structured Programme for Substance Misuse
The child and family substance misuse workers refer those who require structured treatment into the main pathways within WDP West Berkshire

Recovery Support

Recovery focused, mutual aid, peer mentors and ongoing recovery activities have been identified as fundamental to building recovery capital and supporting a client's recovery journey.

Supervisory responsibilities

Proving line management, support, advise and guidance to an internal teams of safeguarding practitioners and acting as named safeguarding lead for WDP West Berkshire Service.

The core hours of this role will be Monday

Friday 9am until 5pm, but there may be some occasional out of hours work which would be considered on a rota basis

Location
1 Station Road, Newbury, RG14 7LP (the role will involve some peripatetic working, outreach and co-location within the Family Safeguarding Team 6 West St, Newbury RG14 1BD)

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities - visit our Benefits Package

For an informal discussion about the position please contact

Thursday 27 April 2023 at

midnight.
WDP welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace.

Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.