Senior Substance Misuse School Link Practitioner

4 months ago

Leatherhead, United Kingdom Catch22 Full time
Job Description

1x Eastern Surrey 

**Term time only - 41 weeks per year. Fixed term to 31/03/2025

We are looking for a  Senior Substance Misuse School Link Practitioners  to work with schools across the region, supporting the development of relevant policy, procedure and training, and bridging the gap between schools and Catch22's substance misuse services.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a positive impact on the lives of children and young people (CYP). Working in close partnership with Surrey Healthy Schools, you will have an opportunity to shape and develop this role to ensure that we are supporting schools and parent/carers with how they respond to, and manage, substance misuse concerns and incidents that occur, within the student population.

Promoting healthy behaviours in CYP, this is an excellent opportunity to build your experience and network across the local education and substance misuse/PHSE environment.

Main Duties:

Develop training for education staff, and where required develop and deliver workshops to parents and carers to provide basic drug and alcohol awareness. The post holder will also offer 1 to 1 targeted support for parents/Carers for CYP who have an identified substance misuse concern. Provide support to parents/carers of service users accessing SYPSMS substance misuse service; you will hold a pre-defined case load of parent/carers, who are referred, by means of effective assessment, care planning and risk management. Work collaboratively with local schools and other relevant agencies to deliver a holistic package of care; this may include attending multi agency meetings. Ensure effective referrals, care and risk management, as well as ease of transition and referral for CYP.  Offer an initial triage/assessment for students (aged up to 18) where concerns/incidents relating to substance misuse have been identified and onward referral of CYP into SYPSMS as appropriate (CYP’s consent will be required for direct support). Offering appropriate specialist harm reduction advice/information to parents/carers and referral of CYP into SYPSMS where appropriate. Ensuring timely and appropriate data recording – including tracking, outcome monitoring, KPI monitoring, and assisting with the production of feedback reports.

The SYPSMS team  are dedicated to making a difference in the lives of children and CYP, working through a relationship-based approach, that draws on the ethos and values aligned with youth and community work. Integrating a variety of work backgrounds, the team utilise a ‘Think Family’ approach – and all staff are trained in motivational interviewing, trauma informed practice, and brief solution-focused interventions – click to find out more.

Qualifications

We are looking for applicants with the following qualifications, skills, abilities, and experience:

NVQ3 Health & Social Care, or equivalent / appropriate qualification; including relevant professional qualifications (, substance misuse, youth work studies, counselling qualification, criminal justice, SENCO).  Specialist knowledge of alcohol/substance misuse, and the associated risks and effects. An ability to engage with, and build effective working relationships with, a range of different partners and stakeholders. Experience in delivering service presentations and training to professionals and partners.

We are also interested in candidates who can demonstrate transferable experience in the following areas:

Education roles, including but not limited to: SENCO, School nurse, designated safeguarding lead

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