Senior Substance Use School Link Practitioner – Partnership Role with Surrey Healthy Schools

Term time only - 41 weeks per year

This role will be a permanent post Covering East Surrey ; the post holder will be working in partnership with Surrey Healthy Schools. This role has been created to provide a dedicated resource to promote healthy behaviours and support schools in responding to substance Use concerns/incidents that occur within the student population. Catch22 will Co-ordinate/oversee the partnership working. 

You will contribute to the Health Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health Services for Surrey Schools which is a wide range of support and services for children and young people in Surrey to help maintain their wellbeing and address their physical emotional and mental health needs.

You will also contribute as required to the development of polices and guidelines relating to health and substance use including PSHE. You will proactively and where appropriate reactively respond to incidents involving substance use and staff training taking a strengths based and trauma informed approach in order to support inclusion and attendance.

The post holder will complement existing services working to support a Surrey Healthy Schools approach offering an initial triage service and assessment for young people referred up to the age of 18 years either through direct contact with children and young people or with professionals parents and carers.

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Qualifications :

We are looking for applicants with the following qualifications skills abilities and experience:

• NVQ3 Health & Social Care or equivalent / appropriate qualification; including relevant professional qualifications (e.g. substance use youth work studies counselling qualification criminal justice SENCO). 
• Specialist knowledge of alcohol/substance use and the associated risks and effects.
• An ability to engage with and build effective working relationships with a range of different partners and stakeholders.
• Experience in delivering service presentations and training to professionals and partners.

We are also interested in candidates who can demonstrate transferable experience in the following areas:

• Education roles including but not limited to: SENCO School nurse designated safeguarding lead

Additional Information :

Salary: Up to 29192.34 depending on experience (pro rata based on full time equivalent of 32000)
Hours of Work:  Full time 37 hours per week. Term time only - 41 weeks per year
Contract: Full time
Flexibility: Opportunities for flexible working available (main office is in Leatherhead)

 This role requires an up to date driving licence access to a vehicle MOT and business insurance.
You may be required to work out of hours including evenings and weekends where necessary in addition to travel around Surrey on a daily basis and occasional travel around the UK.
*Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check required.

Catch22 is committed to staff recruitment and retention and offers a range of training learning and development opportunities. Your continuous professional development is as important to us as it is to you.

Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice will be followed and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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Unless otherwise stated interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22 we value equality diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them a purpose and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

Please note we will conduct an online search as part of our due dilligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media. 

If you are applying for this role and are care experienced/care leaver Catch22 offers a mentor to assist with the application process.  Please contact if you would like to find out more about this support.  This information will not be passed to the team recruiting for this position. For more information about the Propel Programme and a guide for candidates who wish to join the programme please see here. You can also watch an animation on the programme here. 

Catch22s Commitment to Ban the Box

Catch22 is proud to have Banned the Box. This means that we do not ask for candidates to disclose criminal convictions at the application stage. Instead we invite disclosures at interview stage and encourage them at the offer stage. Please see our statement of commitment on hiring people with convictions for more information.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time