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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