senior substance misuse practitioner

Reference

HUL/25/0631

Full Time Equivalent Salary (based on a 37 hour working week)

£ £42839

Occupational group

Early Help

Job term

Full Time

Appointment type

Permanent

Hours

37

Division

Children and Family Services - Directorate

Closing Date

23 November 2025

Proposed Shortlisting Date

24 November 2025

Proposed Interview Date

10 December 2025

Place of work

Kenworthy House, Hull HU1 3DT

For an informal discussion please contact

Matt Wallis

Contact telephone

An exciting opportunity has arisen to become a Senior Substance Misuse Practitioner for ReFRESH, Young Peoples Substance Misuse Service.

In this role you will have responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Early Intervention workstream within the ReFRESH Team. This workstream includes providing effective and supportive supervision to Engagement and Recovery Workers, the Early Intervention Practitioners and the Training and Brief Intervention Practitioner.

You will be expected to chair Case Review Meetings and Recovery, Engagement and Training meetings as well as ensuring the quality assurances practices in the service are being followed by completing effective assessment and closure authorisation as well as full case file audits.

You will support the Service Manager in the continued strategic development of ReFRESH through prioritised workstreams to meet the needs of the service and offer peer support to the Senior Substance Misuse Practitioner responsible for the Treatment workstream.

You will also deputise for the ReFRESH Service Manager, where the need arises.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Matthew Wallis, ReFRESH Service Manager on or

Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.

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Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight on the closing date.

We are committed to increasing the diversity, equity, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We adopt a 'name blind' approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Any offer of employment to the above post will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory Enhanced & Childrens Barring List Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service.

Hull City Council embraces the principles of WorkSmart and this post has been identified as a suitable role. WorkSmart principles create opportunities facilitating a combination of working in the office, ad hoc homeworking, or working from various locations, therefore being flexible about where/ how you carry out your role, the specific opportunities available will be discussed at interview.