- This is a permanent role requiring the post holder to work 37 hours per week.
Complex Needs Practitioner - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Recovery Focus
Description
*Complex Needs Practitioner**£24,442 -£26,424 pa + benefits Pay Under Review**Birmingham
You will have an understanding of working within the substance misuse field and associated health and social issues and preferably also have experience of working with adults or young people in an addictions or social care setting.
We are seeking candidates with a professional qualification in health/social care, youth or community work or direct experience of delivering family focused interventions.
If all you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use then welcome to Aquarius as a Hidden Harm/Family *Practitioner.
Right now, we are looking for someone like you to join our enhanced substance misuse family safeguarding team in Birmingham who specialises in reducing the harms caused to young people and families as a result of parental substance misuse whilst improving parenting ability and family functioning to reduce family breakdown.
Aquarius work with families and young people across a range of home and community settings supporting parents to build insight into the impact of substance misuse whilst developing safety and risk management strategies to minimise risk to the wider family.
Your challenge? To support and deliver a new family model within Birmingham working closely with substance misuse treatment providers, and Childrens Health and Social Care.
You will deliver specialist interventions as part of our intensive family support programme exploring risk factors such as substance use, parental mental health and reducing parental conflict.
This will be delivered through 1:1 support, 5 step focused sessions, education groups, family support groups; and accredited parenting programmes including M-PACT.
Applicants must be committed to attending training for parent training programmes, as well as contributing to the delivery of hidden harm and FASD training to professionals across Birmingham.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic person to help develop this service and expand the family support options to support complex families in Birmingham with the aim of improving outcomes for all family members affected by parental substance misuse.
As well as good knowledge of alcohol/drug and health related issues, you will have experience of liaising with voluntary and statutory agencies and health professionals.
You will also have experience of engaging with clients in a variety of service delivery settings.You will have a flexible approach, a commitment to the principles of confidentiality and excellent record keeping and Microsoft Office.
We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a BAME background.
*This is a rolling recruitment process. Candidates will be interviewed as and when they are shortlisted.
Aquarius is a subsidiary of Richmond Fellowship, with both organisations being part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence.
From 1st June 2024 Richmond Fellowship will be merging with the mental health charity Humankind to form a single organisation that provides the joined-up mental health, housing and drug and alcohol support we've all known has been needed for decades.
At the same time, Aquarius will become a subsidiary of Humankind, with no impact to terms and conditions of employment.
In October 2024, Humankind will then be renamed to reflect the new, bigger and better organisation, of which Aquarius will remain a subsidiary.
Job Type:
Full-time
Pay:
£24,442.00-£26,424.00 per year
Work Location:
In person