Company Description
At Catch22, we are proud of our reputation as a modern and progressive employer. Our 1,300 colleagues and 300 volunteers work at every stage of the social welfare cycle, supporting over 60,000 individuals from cradle to career. Our work spans education, social justice and rehabilitation, children's social care, family support, social action, and getting people into work.
Hampshire 24/7 Substance Misuse Service
Our Hampshire 24/7 Substance Misuse Service is a county wide, community engagement based service, which offers targeted and specialist treatment to young people aged 25 years and under. We are a forward thinking, person-centred service, with a high level of credibility among young people.
The Willow Team is a specialist multi-agency child exploitation team (Children’s Social Care led), which was specifically formed to address the needs of children and young people who repeatedly go missing, or are at risk of sexual exploitation, criminal exploitation, and trafficking. The Willow Team works collaboratively with Hampshire Constabulary’s MET team, Hampshire’s Youth Offending Team, sexual health teams and St Giles Trust.
Job Description
The role of Substance Misuse Practitioner - Willow Team is an excellent opportunity to join a highly communicative and multi-disciplinary team of professionals, who are working to directly address the needs of children and young people.
Main Duties and Accountabilities
- Providing integrated, targeted, and specialist structured treatment interventions for young people under 18 years of age, who are referred to the service under the supervision of the Catch22 and Willow management teams.
- Providing targeted and specialist interventions, through 1:1 and group work, for young people who are identified via triage, assessment, and care planning.
- Providing sustained support to a pre-defined case load of young people.
- Providing consultation, information, and informal training to the Willow staff team, around substances, to enable them to deliver low-level interventions to young people (who may not reach the threshold for referral into each service, but who would benefit from an early intervention alongside the core delivery offer).
- Offering a flexible and adaptive approach, to support evening and weekend working, where required.
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Qualifications
- Minimum of 2 years experience of working with young people, in a treatment/prescribing setting, for substance use/misuse.
- Excellent engagement skills, with the ability to motivate and enthuse young people, and experience of working with challenging/hard to engage young people, in group and one-to-one settings.
- Excellent working knowledge of substance misuse issues amongst young people, including engagement and intervention strategies.
- Knowledge of Every Child Matters and other appropriate youth policies.
Additional Information
Salary: £25,500 per annum
Hours of work: Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Internal secondment, to 31st March 2025
Location: This role is based in the Havant and Fareham offices, but will involve daily travel across the whole of Hampshire.
*This role requires access to a vehicle, and a full current driving licence.
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Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.
At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.
If you are applying for this role and are care experienced, Catch22 offers a mentor to assist with the application process. Please contact recruitment@catch-22.org.uk if you would like to find out more about this support. This information will not be passed to the team recruiting for this position
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