Substance Misuse Case Responsible Officer
Gloucestershire
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Hourly Rate of pay Minimum: £ 20.96
Hourly Rate of pay Maximum: £ 20.96
Job Location: Shire Hall
Hours per Week: 18.5 & 37
Closing Date: 08/06/2025
Duration: 3 months
** 2 X FULL TIME POSTS & 1 X 0.5 FTE POST AVAILABLE. PLEASE ADVISE WHICH POST CANDIDATE IS APPLYING FOR **
A fantastic opportunity has arisen in the Gloucestershire Youth Support Team (YST) for a Substance Misuse Case Responsible Officer. We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, hardworking, committed, and person-centred individual to be part of our team.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing substance misuse treatment to children and young people across the county including:
• Providing specialist substance misuse assessment, care planning, specialist risk assessment and risk management and treatment (as per Public Health England definitions) for children, young people, and their families.
• Effectively supporting and prioritising, based on risk, a caseload of children and young people using substances.
• A focus on harm reduction and supporting children and young people to be safer, recognising that the work is undertaken with some of the most vulnerable individuals in the county.
• Undertaking screening and referral of children and young people in line with county protocols and safeguarding practices.
• Working with children and young people, through the building and sustaining of quality therapeutic relationships, in order to:
- support their recovery in their own communities.
- enable them to make informed choices about their substance use.
- enable them to minimise and manage harm to themselves and others through the safer use of substances, towards a goal of abstinence.
• Deliver evidence-based psychosocial interventions including MI, CBT, ACRA
• Using clinical supervision to reflect on own practice within the ethos of reflective and scientific practice.
• Contributing to health practice within the Youth Support Team so that it is developed and exercised within best practice and evidence-based guidelines.
• Providing staff from the Youth Support Team, and partner agencies, with support, consultation, and training on substance misuse issues.
• You will have excellent engagement and communication skills and the ability to communicate complex information to children and young people.
• You will have excellent skills in engaging and building relationships with children and young people.
• You will have excellent IT skills.
• You will have a full driving licence
This role is via the Temporary Staff Service, please click here Temporary Staff Service for more information.
This Position is subject to a DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
Job Requisition ID: 11772