Start360

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Phone Number: +442890435810
Email: human.resources@start360.org
Web: http://www.start360.org

Job description

In consultation with the Director of Services, Services Manager and colleagues, the post-holder will be required to successfully deliver a range of services in partnership with the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust (SET) to enable service users to re-enter the wider community without recourse to drug and alcohol use and offending. They will be required to successfully implement the care plan of each individual service user who is participating in the programme, ensure good running of the programme, and contribute to its development.

Responsibilities

• Carry out a comprehensive substance use assessment to identify and prioritise service user needs.
• Plan and agree service responses which meet identified service user needs and circumstances.
• Carry on 12 week 1-2-1 sessions using counselling modalities.
• Provide one-to-one, and group, interventions, for service users with substance use issues.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• Hold a minimum of a diploma level in counselling (Level 4 CPCAB or Foundation Degree in Counselling). Applications welcome from those qualifying Summer 2026.
• Hold either, 1 years’ minimum paid experience or 1 years’ experience in a voluntary capacity, working with people with substance use.

Further Information

Salary: £29,962.50 per annum pro rata.