Breakthru DICE Project Worker

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POST:Breakthru DICE Project Worker

LOCATION: Omagh and Fermanagh Districts

ACCOUNTABILITY: Breakthru Manager

REQUIREMENTS:See personnel description

HOURS OF WORK: 1 posts @37½ hours p/wk.

Evening and weekend workwill be required

SALARY: Salary of £24,660p.a.

Purpose of the job: The DICE project aims to work with young people who are care experienced or supported at home as a result of parental substance misuse in order to help them understand and accept their experience, minimise risk taking behaviour and provide learning opportunities in order to maximise their potential.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

  1. To liaise and work effectively witha range of Statutory and Voluntary organisations
  1. To promote the service across all areas
  1. To engage care experienced/supported young people
  1. To develop programmes addressing the specific needs of the target group
  1. To increase the knowledge and understanding of the target group in relation to substance misuse, mental health and parental responsibility
  1. To provide one to one interventions with young people
  1. To liaise closely with young people to establish a Young Persons Forum to help steer the project
  1. To raise awareness of Hidden Harm among young people
  1. To raise awareness of Hidden Harm within the workforce aiding early detection and intervention
  1. To prepare and provide necessary written reports and other documentation as required by the manager regarding the programme.
  1. To undertake any other duties as may be reasonably required by management and observe all aspects of the projects Health and Safety Policy and regulations.
  1. To participate in personal professional development, attend regular supervision and team meetings.
  1. To be in sympathy with and work to the ethos of Breakthru

PERSONNEL SPECIFICATIONS

Breakthru DICE Project Worker

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

The following essential criteria will be applied at short-listing stage. If the panel decide, from the information contained on your application, that you do not meet all the essential criteria, then you will not be short-listed.

Either:

Third Level qualification in Youth Work, Community Development Work, Social Work or related Discipline

OR

A minimum of three yearscontinuous experience (paid or unpaid,training placements excluded)in Youth Work

  1. Demonstrate experience in the planning, design and delivery of programmes for young people ‘at risk’
  1. Experience in working with a range of statutory, voluntary and community sectors
  1. Demonstrate creativity, flexibility and imaginative approaches to working with young people
  1. Experience of one to one interventions with young people
  1. Knowledge and/or accredited qualifications relating to alcohol and drug awareness
  1. Demonstrate experience of cross-community and inclusive working
  1. Demonstrate an ability to work on own initiative and as an accountable team member and take ownership of achieving project aims, objectives and targets
  1. Show a willingness to work unsocial hours including evenings and weekends
  1. Demonstrate effective administrative skills, including recording and monitoring
  1. Have access to a car and hold a full drivers licence

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

The following desirable criteria will be applied at short-listing stage should the panel decide that too many applicants meet all of the essential criteria. It is important in making your application, that, along with the essential criteria listed above, you provide sufficient detail of all of the desirable criteria that you feel you meet.

  1. Qualification in Motivational Interviewing Techniques