Job title and organisation: Lead Practitioner - Young People Team - Waythrough
Salary: £25,510 - £35,090
Hours: 37 Monday - Friday
Contract: Permanent
Location: The closest North Yorkshire hub to your home address - Selby, Northallerton, Skipton, Harrogate or Scarborough.
Closing Date: Sunday 12 October
About the role and service...
Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you can make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable children, young people and their families? Look no further than Waythough’s North Yorkshire RISE!
North Yorkshire RISE is a specialist young people’s drug and alcohol service. Commissioned by North Yorkshire Council. NY RISE works with young people across North Yorkshire aged 10-19 and up to 25 with SEND who need specialist support around drug and alcohol use.
As a Young Peoples Lead Practitioner, you will provide supervisory responsibility to the team and maintain the day-to-day functioning and performance of the team. Take a lead role in the development of the service and maintain a positive working environment.
Duties will include:
- Implement, develop and assist in the management of services delivered by the team within a defined specialist area.
- Support the Service/Area Manager to develop, deliver, monitor and improve processes, control systems and work environments to meet quality requirements and contractual needs including KPIs.
- Develop, deliver and operationally lead quality service delivery elements, pathways and resources that meet service and local need.
- Manage, mentor, coach and ensure the development of staff reporting to you.
- Manage a caseload, completing and reviewing high quality and comprehensive assessments, risk assessments and support plans, including liaising with family members, significant others and professionals / agencies as appropriate.
- Maintain accurate and up to date records and reports and provide written and verbal reports as required.
- Contribute to the delivery of company strategy by communicating and implementing objectives and priorities at project level.
About you...
- Experience of leading and developing people, including providing effective and regular supervision.
- Understanding of and ability to implement evidenced based interventions, including brief interventions MI, PSIs, CBT and ITEP.
- Experience of completing service user assessments including comprehensive risk assessments.
- Relevant Health and Social Care qualification.
At Waythrough, we are committed to creating a safe and supportive working environment that enables our staff to thrive. Our hybrid outreach working model includes a base site and will involve covering multiple locations to cover a county wide contract across North Yorkshire with your base being the one that is closes to your home address.
So, if you are passionate about helping others and want to make a real difference in your community, apply today to join our team as a Young Peoples Lead Practitioner!
To view the full job description and person specification, please click here.
The salary advertised below demonstrates the full earning potential for this role however starting salaries will be based on experience, therefore may not necessarily start from the bottom of the pay scale advertised.
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.
Thanks for bearing with us – and don’t forget to check out the Waythrough (Formerly Humankind) jobs on the Richmond Fellowship and Aquarius job site - Careers
What can Waythrough (Formerly Humankind) offer you…
- Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Enhanced occupational sick pay
- Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
- Death in service benefit
- Free Will writing
- Eyecare vouchers
- Blue light card discount
- Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses
- Work-life balance- flexible working and family friendly policies
- Happy, Healthy You! – our wellbeing offers for our workforce
Employee Assist Programme and Waythrough Support Networks
Waythrough (Formerly Humankind) is an equal opportunities employer
We value unique perspectives and experiences that everyone can bring, and fully understand the strength in diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. If you have a genuine passion for working for us, we want to hear for you. We also welcome applications from people with lived experience with substance use. If you require support with your application, please contact the Recruitment Team at people.recruitment@waythrough.org.uk
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The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.
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