Young Person'S Worker

Closing date:
Friday 16th October

Join Us as a Young Person's Worker in Faversham - Job Description

Are you a compassionate and motivated individual who wants to change people's lives? Our team in West Kent is looking for a Young Person's Worker to join them in providing high-quality recovery care to a diverse client group. If you are enthusiastic, creative and passionate about helping others, we'd love to hear from you.

As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year. Find out more about us

With You in Kent for Young People is the commissioned provider of substance use support for young people aged between 10-25 years old. We offer a range of free and confidential services to young people, professionals and their families. As a service, we offer both short term and long term one to one work with young people and a range of group work options.

All interventions stem from the service's ethos of providing accurate, individualised and non-judgemental support and guidance around drugs and alcohol.

This role involves working one to one with young people aged 10-18 years old delivering a range of harm reduction interventions in relation to drugs and alcohol including ketamine, cannabis, alcohol, cocaine and benzodiazepines. The role will require the applicant to work with complex 10-18 year old, substance using, young people. You will be expected to show initiative, forward thinking and independence in their work and show exemplary recording in line with processes and policies.

Our young people require a holistic approach and may be experiencing mental health challenges, missing episodes, offending and familial breakdown. As such, you will work closely with external agencies and families to help our young people achieve the best outcomes. You will carry and manage a caseload of young people, engaging them in sessions in the community such as at school, their home or in community buildings.

You will be supported with case management through line management and group reflective practice sessions in addition to team meetings and practice development days.

We offer training to new staff and ongoing opportunities for learning and development, so if you love working with young people and are keen to become experienced and knowledgeable in the field of drug and alcohol harm reduction, this could be the role for you.

Each worker has a designated area of work within Kent, (this role is to cover West Kent). You will be paid mileage at a rate of 55p per mile. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is therefore essential. Please note - the location of Faversham is included in this advert for internal purposes only.

As a Young Person's Worker, we offer a starting salary of £26,250 per annum pro rata. The salary for this role is on an incremental scale and will rise each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, to £30,900 per annum pro rata.

This is a fixed term role, until January 2029, working 37.5 hours per week.

• Relevant experience in a similar role (such as working in a Health & Social Care, Criminal Justice setting) and/or clear motivations for applying such as a relevant qualification that has required vocational placement
• Experience of working with young people
• Evidence of safeguarding experience and knowledge
• Driving licence and access to a vehicle

As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve…