Prevention / Intervention Practitioner

Start360

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

Job description

Start360 is Northern Ireland’s leading provider of support services to young people, adult offenders, and families in the community.

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.
  • Holding frequent key work sessions.
  • Provide one-to-one, and group, interventions, for service users with substance use issues

Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

  • Hold a relevant third-level qualification such as Counselling, Social Work, Youth Work, Nursing, Psychology, Health & Social Care, Criminology or Teaching or 3 year’s paid experience in a professional capacity working with people with substance use.
  • Further to a third level qualification, Hold 1 year minimum paid experience in a professional, or voluntary capacity, working with people with substance use.
  • Experience working with people who present with complex needs including mental health and substance use.
  • Experience in individual case management.
  • Experience in group facilitation.

Further Information

£29,360.70 pro rata

Vacancy ID
1789072
Job ref.
PMY 09/26
Job Sector
Childcare and Social Work
Area
Co Antrim
Location
Lisburn
Salary
See further information.
No. vacancies
1
Contract Type
Permanent
Weekly hours
29.5
Published date
28/09/2026
Closing date
05/10/2026
Worktime
Monday to Friday, hours to be confirmed

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