Substance Misuse Support Worker jobs

Are you looking to change the lives of young people? We have a great opportunity for a worker to join the Royal Borough of Greenwich Young Persons Substance Misuse Service helping to support young people in their journey away from alcohol and substance use.

You will be a highly motivated and committed individual with excellent experience enabling transition from one to one support to statutory and third sector support services.

You are curious and tenacious about your engagement with young people (10-18) and be able to work effectively with members of the Substance Misuse Team.

You will be able to find appropriate pathways into and out of the Young persons substance misuse service, researching appropriate support services and programmes and accompanying and enabling young people into them.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of an experienced and skilled team working in a specialised area of Children’s Services. You will make a real difference to children’s lives and add to your career experience.

Hours: 21 hours per week

Two Year Fixed Term Contract

Grade: Scale 5 - Full time equivalent salary is £32,535 - £33,987.

For an informal discussion please contact Russell Wyles at russell.wyles@royalgreenwich.gov.uk or 0208 921 6907 or 07541900669

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

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How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statements addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statements section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

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