Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of young people?

Join our dedicated team at New Beginnings in Cheshire West and Chester, where your work will help shape brighter futures for young people affected by drug and alcohol misuse.

The Role

We are looking for a proactive and committed individual, someone who can work independently but also part of a team to join our New Beginnings service in Cheshire West and Chester. You will be working with a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals to provide support, advise and interventions

This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is planned, and managed well for our Young People who access our service.

The role will include significant travel and peripatetic outreach including into fixed youth provision settings in the evening (for example youth centres).

You will:

• Undertake early-intervention and prevention work in a variety of youth settings/schools/community services to prevent the progression of substance misuse and associated anti-social and risk-taking behaviour, including sexual exploitation.
• Enable young people to develop healthy boundaries, emotional resilience and build self-esteem, providing harm reduction prevention advice, guidance and education.
• Enable people to access education, employment, health, wellbeing and recovery activities - promoting a culture of positive occupation of time.
• Work alongside the Early Help/Contextual Safeguarding Team and Prevention Service in Cheshire West and Chester - engaging with the wider youth service team and other stakeholder.
• Support the day-to-day delivery of excellent drug and alcohol services young people and their significant others, including family members friends and carers.
• Deliver peripatetic provision and outreach work to ensure that we engage all young people that need our services.

There is an expectation for the successful candidate to be able to work across our three service hubs, the wider North-West. Ability to drive is essential.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package

For an informal discussion about the position, or if you would like to visit the service, please contact Jane Murphy, Service Manager on Jane.Murphy@viaorg.uk

The closing date for applications is Sunday 17 August at midnight.

Interviews will take week commencing 18 August.

All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.

Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.

Please email people@viaorg.uk if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.