Apprentice Young Person's Worker

3 months ago

Preston, United Kingdom We Are With You Full time

Are you looking for a role that will enable you to begin a rewarding career working with young people?

WithYou are recruiting for an Apprentice Young Person’s Worker - if you have an interest in working with clients who struggle with substance misuse and want to join a forward-thinking, values-driven organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Within this role you will gain experience of working alongside our schools engagement team supporting vulnerable children and young people through 1-1 and group work. As well as gaining a qualification and experience in Youth Work, you will also have opportunities to learn more about our drug and alcohol work, and access wider training and opportunities in support for your career aspirations.

This apprenticeship will provide an opportunity for learning, development and work experience and offers a supported approach to new career opportunities and further education in the drug and alcohol sector.

As part of this role, you will gain experience of the Lancashire Young Person’s treatment system, assist in assessing client needs and providing positive interventions that encourage, motivate and assist clients in addressing their substance misuse.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about providing support, information, training, education and guidance to young people, as well as working to improve access to appropriate services.

You will be compassionate and empathetic, with the ability to connect quickly with the people we support, treating them respectfully and with dignity. It’s important that you are able to work collaboratively as part of our busy team and that you have an adaptable, personable communication style, to allow you to listen, share information and give and receive support and advice.

**As part of your apprenticeship, you will undertake and complete the Level 3 Substance Misuse qualification within 6 months of joining us.** Above all, we are looking for someone who is passionate about what we do, with a positive and engaging approach to our clients

**REQUIRED SKILLS**:

- Commitment to complete Level 3 Substance Misuse qualification within 6 months of starting
- The ability to listen, share information and give and receive support and advice
Effective oral and written communication skills with ability to speak and write clearly
- To work collaboratively as part of a team
- To communicate effectively with clients, colleagues and other agencies
- Have an interest in working with drug and alcohol users
- Motivated, committed and flexible
- Demonstrates effective time management skills
- Able to meet We Are With You’s safeguarding requirements of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS certificate
- Ability to work flexible and unsocial hours as 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
- Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
- Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street 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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