Young Persons Worker

2 weeks ago

Wigan, Wigan, United Kingdom We Are With You Full time

Do you have a great rapport with young people? Are you passionate about educating and supporting them to navigate their way through the many issues they face today? If so, this job could be exactly what you're looking for....

Our Young Persons Worker teams offer vital support, training, and education to young people in their locality. They work with other agencies and professionals to safeguard their young clients, working with their families too where appropriate.


The work can be challenging but it's always rewarding and at With You, you'll be part of an amazing team making a real difference to people's lives.

Wigan and Leigh is an integrated drug and alcohol service, delivering an asset based community approach to treatment. We provide support to people who have been affected by drugs and alcohol.

We work with people on their own goals, whether that's staying safe and healthy, making a small change or stopping an unwanted habit.

We work with both adults and Young People. Our approach is sensitive and respectful, listening to people's stories and learning from them.


As a Young Persons Worker, you'll be supporting a caseload of young people who are experiencing difficulties with substance misuse.

You'll work with them to access their needs, develop care plans, delivery a variety of treatments and/or refer them to other specialist support when needed.

You'll also be proactively engaging with young people to provide them with the support, training, education and guidance they need to better understand the implication of the situations they may face and the decision they may take

REQUIRED SKILLS:

To be able to do this job successfully, you will have:

  • an OCN/NVQ level 3 or equivalent, or willing to achieve this within 12 months
- evidence of training in Child Protection and Safeguarding
- a successful track record of therapeutic working with young people in groups and 1:1 settings
- demonstrable experience of supporting young people in relation to mental health or substance misuse
- knowledge and understanding of health and safety, including assessing high-risk situations for clients
- knowledge and understanding of issues affecting young people such as substance misuse, mental and physical health and emotional wellbeing
- thorough and up to date knowledge of child and adolescent development, mental wellbeing and self harming behaviours
- a proven ability to carry out comprehensive assessments, assess risk, devise care plans and deliver evidence based interventions
- a proven track record of working as an individual and as part of a team sharing skills, experience and knowledge with others
- able to visit other locations from time to time in order to deliver the services required

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

A full job description will be provided upon request

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.


At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that's staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether.

We give people support in a way that's right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.

We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year.


We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.


We Are With You.


If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.


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BENEFITS:

  • Competitive salary
  • 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
  • 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
  • Autoenrollment into We Are With You's pension scheme
  • Access to a Blue Light Card giving you great savings on big highstreet and online brands
  • Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
  • We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period

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