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Lead Practitioner
Location: Northallerton, DL7 8LZ
Salary: £25,010-£35,090 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm with one late night on a Wednesday until 8pm, on a rota basis.
North Yorkshire Horizons is a service made up of several key partners, led by the organisation, enabling the development of a peer led, recovery community. Providing a safe environment in which people can develop the life skills, and confidence to achieve and maintain recovery and abstinence from their substance misuse, successfully re-integrate into society, and become active, contributing citizens.
The Role
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Practitioner Role within their creative and dynamic team at North Yorkshire Horizons Northallerton. If you are passionate about leading a dedicated team and ensuring top-notch performance and compliance, this role is for you!
You will make an impact, play a pivotal role in maintaining the highest standards of performance and compliance within their services. Supporting the Project/Area Manager to develop, deliver, monitor and improve processes, control systems and work environments to meet quality requirements and contractual needs including KPIs. The purpose of the role is to manage the day to day functioning and performance of a designated service team and area of specialist service delivery to ensure a positive working environment is maintained and a quality service is delivered.
You will be required to supervise a team that provides holistic packages of support to adult service users, empowering them to move through the integrated recovery-oriented substance misuse service, increasing opportunities for service users to achieve sustainable treatment outcomes within Northallerton and its surrounding areas. As directed by the Project Manager, the Lead Practitioner will be an integral member of this dynamic multi agency service.
Skills and Qualifications
* A relevant level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care or higher.
* Experience supervising a team.
* An understanding of and ability to implement evidenced based interventions, including brief interventions MI, PSIs, CBT and ITEP.
* Experience of working with drug/alcohol users and delivering 1-2-1 and group evidence based interventions.
* Experience of completing service user assessments including comprehensive risk assessments.
* A full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle is required for this role.
Benefits
* 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! – their wellbeing offers for their workforce
* Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable organisation, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.
The organisation is an equal opportunities employer
They value unique perspectives and experiences that everyone can bring, and fully understand the strength in diversity and inclusion. They 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 them, they want to hear for you. They also welcome applications from people with lived experience with substance use