Lead Practitioner

**Vacancy No**

VN4839

**Employment Type**

Permanent

**Hours Per Week**

37.00

**Work Pattern**

Includes weekends & evenings

**Location**

Burleigh Street

**Location Region**

South Yorkhire

**Location City**

Barnsley

**Location Postal Code**

S70 1XY

**Interview Date**

03 Mar 2025

**Job Details**

**Lead Practitioner x2**
**Location: Barnsley**
**Contract: Permanent**

The Community Recovery Navigation and HOPE teams are a vital part of Barnsley Recovery Steps, a service dedicated to providing exceptional support to people using substances across Barnsley. Two exciting opportunities have arisen within the Recovery Navigation and HOPE teams for a role as a lead practitioner. If you are passionate about supporting people to make informed choices, changes to their substance use, provide robust harm reduction interventions in a variety of locations and work towards improving health inequalities.

Barnsley Recovery Steps offer a comprehensive range of interventions and support, including detox and prescribing, one-to-one and group sessions, parenting and relationship skills, family and carer support, training and education, outreach, partner agency work and facilitation to peer support. If you are looking to work in a busy and rewarding environment where we put the people who use our service at the forefront of the work we deliver, then this role may be for you.

**About the role**
As the Lead Practitioner, you will play a crucial role in supporting and providing guidance and line management to our dedicated staff. You will also carry a small caseload of clients, engaging in case management, multi-agency collaboration, data analysis, and coordination of group work delivery. This is an on-site role; no hybrid working options are available. This role will require you to work across both sites, depending on capacity and need.

**As a Lead Practitioner, you will be responsible for**:

- Supporting the team and Area Managers
- Providing guidance and line management to staff members
- Carrying a small caseload of clients, offering case management and support ( If necessary)
- Fostering collaboration with multiple agencies to enhance service delivery
- Analysing data and contribute to the development of evidence-based practices
- Coordinating the delivery of group work sessions, outreach and targeted pieces of work to improve health inequalities within Barnsley.
- Adhering to national guidelines and provide the development of staff to provide exceptional care for people who use our service.
- Supporting the team to achieve all KPI’s and targets.

**Please note the shift pattern is usually Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.**_Some late nights and weekends may be required to support service delivery._**

**About you**:

- Experience in substance misuse service is beneficial
- NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care (or above or equivalent)
- Good written and verbal, communications skills.
- Sound IT skills including knowledge of Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Experience of using systm1 is desirable
- Previous line management experience is desirable although not essential as the service look to provide an excellent standard of training and support to develop staff within their roles.
- A passion to make a positive difference and be hardworking and flexible to support staff and people who use our service.

If you are passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of individuals dealing with drug and alcohol issues, and if you possess the experience outlined above, we would love to hear from you. Join our dedicated team and help us provide high-quality recovery services within Barnsley.
- ‘The salary advertised above demonstrates the full earning potential for this role, starting salaries will allow for pay progression within the pay band’_
- For full person specifications and job details_

**Who are we**
Waythrough (formerly Humankind) launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support.
We have almost 200 services around England - and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around 125,000 people.
Bringing together two big organisations is not a small task and it’ll take a while to fully integrate our systems, processes and approaches. That’s why you will notice the jobs here are still branded ‘Humankind’. Next year we’ll be fully integrating our recruitment systems but for now they are separate.

**What can Waythrough (formerly Humankind) offer you**
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- Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Enhanced occupational sick pay
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- Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
- Death in service ben