Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Youth Substance Misuse Officer - Gloucestershire Council

Salary: £18.00 Per Hour
Hours: 37
Working Schedule: Monday to Friday
Role: 6 Month Contract
Location: Shire Hall, GL1 2TG

Job Details

2 X Full-Time Posts Available 1 x Part-Time Role Available

A fantastic opportunity has arisen in the Gloucestershire Youth Support Team (YST) for a Substance Misuse Case Responsible Officer. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, hardworking, committed, and person-centred individual to be part of our team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing substance misuse treatment to children and young people across the county including:

• Providing specialist substance misuse assessment, care planning, specialist risk assessment and risk management and treatment (as per Public Health England definitions) for children, young people, and their families.

• Effectively supporting and prioritising, based on risk, a caseload of children and young people using substances.

• A focus on harm reduction and supporting children and young people to be safer, recognising that the work is undertaken with some of the most vulnerable individuals in the county.

• Undertaking screening and referral of children and young people in line with county protocols and safeguarding practices.

• Working with children and young people, through the building and sustaining of quality therapeutic relationships, in order to: support their recovery in their own communities.

enable them to make informed choices about their substance use.

enable them to minimise and manage harm to themselves and others through the safer use of substances, towards a goal of abstinence.

• Deliver evidence-based psychosocial interventions including MI, CBT, ACRA

• Using clinical supervision to reflect on own practice within the ethos of reflective and scientific practice.

• Contributing to health practice within the Youth Support Team so that it is developed and exercised within best practice and evidence-based guidelines.

• Providing staff from the Youth Support Team, and partner agencies, with support, consultation, and training on substance misuse issues.

• You will have excellent engagement and communication skills and the ability to communicate complex information to children and young people.

• You will have excellent skills in engaging and building relationships with children and young people.

• You will have excellent IT skills.

• You will have a full driving licence

If interested in the role please apply with your most recent CV and Daniel Walsh will be in touch to discuss further.