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Role: Family Worker (Substance Misuse)
Location: Banbury
Salary: £16 - £19 phr UMB (FTE salary £25,250 - £30,000)
Hours: 35 hours
Duration: Temp/Temp - Perm
Synopsis of duties:
- To support children 8 18 who are affected by parental substance misuse or supporting parents/guardians who are affected by their child's substance misuse.
- To carry a combined caseload of both complex young people and their families across targeted areas of Oxfordshire (North)
- Working in a trauma informed approach, providing specialist assessment, care planning and interventions around drugs and alcohol use.
- Deliver evidence based psychosocial and educational interventions to children and families, taking a whole family approach to the problem of parental substance use across Oxfordshire
- To engage with young people and their families in various settings such as children’s centres, drop-in, schools, colleges, and homes and to provide assessment, advice and guidance from designated settings across Oxfordshire.
- Support families to achieve outcomes including improvement in family dynamics, resilience, and communication.
- Contribute to the service’s whole family trauma informed practice and psychologically informed environments
Requirements
- Experience of client work with children and young people, families and drug / alcohol users.
- Experience of using strengths based assessment tools and the delivery of a range of therapeutic skills and interventions to facilitate behaviour change.
- Experience of completing and reviewing support plans
- Experience of group facilitation
- Experience working as a part of a multi-agency framework
- Enhanced DBS on the update service or dated within the last 12 months.
- Valid UK driving licence with access to a vehicle
Supporting Futures act as both an employer and agency.
