Substance Misuse Worker Temporary Until 31 March

2 weeks ago


St Helens, St. Helens, United Kingdom St. Helens Council Full time

Job Description:

We Are St Helens Borough Council

Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council, which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support.

We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey.

Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

Making A Difference as A Substance Misuse Worker in YPDAAT

St Helens Young People's Drug and Alcohol Team delivers a wide range of services to reduce the harms to young people caused by substance misuse.

The service works on an individual basis with young people as well as delivering group work, events, training to the children and young people's workforce and support for families.

An opportunity has arisen for a full time temporary Substance misuse Worker until 31st March 2025.

You must be able to engage with young people with complex and challenging needs, to build trusting relationships and rapport, to deliver interventions to encourage behaviour change and reduce the harm caused by drug or alcohol use.

You will have good knowledge of safeguarding procedures and working with young people across the different levels of need as well as being able to provide early help support with the use of early help assessments with families to build strengths and resilience.

You must be passionate about helping people to make change and be able to challenge/support as required.


This post involves working with a number of professionals and services and the ability to adapt to situations as well as building good relationships is key to this post.

The duties of the post may require you to work occasional evenings and weekends.

You must have experience of working with young people and hold a relevant qualification (Level 3 or equivalent) in health, youth work, social work or similar.

You must have a passion to work with young people to make a difference to their health and wellbeing.

The desire to help young people overcome substance misuse, along with enthusiasm, flexibility, adaptability, creativity and a genuine commitment to improve life chances are important qualities for this role.

The closing date for applicants is Monday 6th May 2024.
Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.

Thank you for your interest in working for us.

Equality & Diversity

St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer.

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