Family Intervention Worker

**Family Intervention Worker - PROPS North East (2x full-time)**

**Reports to**:Team Leader

**Location**:Newcastle Upon Tyne

**Job Purpose**:
The Family Intervention Worker (FIW) will provide direct intervention including the Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training (CRAFT) to people accessing PROPS North East services for issues relating to someone else’s drug/alcohol misuse. In-house training will be provided for this role.

This role is specific to meeting the needs of families impacted by someone else’s substance misuse. Delivery of robust evidence-based interventions will be supplemented with holistic support addressing health, social, financial, and legal implications that problematic consumption causes.

This work contributes to the PROPS North East vision of working towards sustainable whole family recovery.

Duties are not exclusive, duties will be reviewed where necessary.

**Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities**:

- To support carers and their families to make sustained improvements in their health and wellbeing and attainment of sustainable whole family recovery.
- Adopt an assertive outreach approach to engage carers and families to gain support in their own right.
- To record all documentation and case notes to a high standard and within the required timeframes.
- Raising of awareness within communities of the impact of substance misuse on families and develop local responses including advice and information and effective referrals.
- Facilitate a culture of challenging negative behaviours and discrimination.
- Ensure that all family members and local stakeholders are aware of the range of services offered and promote these within the wider community.
- Provide a referral route to additional service provision as required.
- To work collaboratively and proactively with other members of staff and volunteers to ensure that services are fully coordinated and are working collectively towards PROPS North East’s vision and positive outcomes for families.
- To attend/lead external client-related meetings where appropriate.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of carer services, drug services and other relevant social/welfare organisations, and their referral criteria.
- To undertake all administration duties to the highest standard in line with GDPR and data protection.

**Partnership Work**
- Work closely with other services to ensure effective care coordination via joint working - screening, triage, assessment and referral protocols in line with agreed multi-agency protocols, e.g. information sharing, confidentiality etc.
- Raising of awareness within communities of the impact of substance misuse on families and develop local responses including advice and information and effective referrals.
- To form productive working relationships with external agencies and professionals, existing and new, to ensure carers and their families have access to a wide range of recovery and community resources.

**Supervision and Training**
- Attend and actively participate in regular supervision and the annual appraisal process.
- Keep personally up to date with developments and new initiatives and legislation affecting drug and alcohol, and its associated behaviours.
- Attend Safeguarding training.
- Attend and participate in mandatory and additional training sessions both as trainer and trainee.
- To deliver training packages including drug and alcohol, carer awareness and safety planning to families and key partners.

**Personal Impact**
- Be a role model in terms of style, teamwork and pace.
- To be responsible for performance management at an individual level through self-management; delivery of goals and tasks set; delivery of contractual requirements, targets and outcomes; and reporting progress.
- Ensure objectives and priorities are aligned with the charity’s vision, objectives and priorities and align with PROPS values.
- Develop a culture of teamwork, resilience and high performance.

**To carry out responsibilities with clear regard to PROPS North East Equality and Diversity, Health and Safety, and other relevant employee focused policies and procedures.**

**Family Intervention Worker Person Specification**:
**Essential and Desirable Experience, Knowledge & Skills Required for the Role**

**Education and Qualifications**

**Essential criteria**:

- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Family Intervention Work or Family Support Work Training
- Full clean Driving Licence
- Evidenced training in substance misuse and treatment approaches.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Evidenced qualification in training delivery.
- Professional qualification in relation to Health and Social Care i.e. Social Work, Youth and Community, Community Development, Public Health, Counselling, Family Therapy.

**Skills and Abilities**

**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with a range of people.
- Ability to work in a non-judgemental / anti-discrim