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Location: The closest North Yorkshire hub to your home address - Selby, Northallerton, Skipton, Harrogate or Scarborough.
About The Role North Yorkshire RISE is a specialist young people’s drug and alcohol service. Commissioned by North Yorkshire Council. NY RISE works with young people across North Yorkshire aged 10-19 and up to 25 with SEND who need specialist support around drug and alcohol use.
Duties Will Include
* Implement, develop and assist in the management of services delivered by the team within a defined specialist area.
* Support the Service/Area Manager to develop, deliver, monitor and improve processes, control systems and work environments to meet quality requirements and contractual needs including KPIs.
* Develop, deliver and operationally lead quality service delivery elements, pathways and resources that meet service and local need.
* Manage, mentor, coach and ensure the development of staff reporting to you.
* Manage a caseload, completing and reviewing high quality and comprehensive assessments, risk assessments and support plans, including liaising with family members, significant others and professionals / agencies as appropriate.
* Maintain accurate and up to date records and reports and provide written and verbal reports as required.
* Contribute to the delivery of company strategy by communicating and implementing objectives and priorities at project level.
About You
* Experience of leading and developing people, including providing effective and regular supervision.
* Understanding of and ability to implement evidenced based interventions, including brief interventions MI, PSIs, CBT and ITEP.
* Experience of completing service user assessments including comprehensive risk assessments.
* Relevant Health and Social Care qualification.
At Waythrough, we are committed to creating a safe and supportive working environment that enables our staff to thrive. Our hybrid outreach working model includes a base site and will involve covering multiple locations to cover a county wide contract across North Yorkshire with your base being the one that is closest to your home address.
To Apply Please use this link: https://peoplekind.my.salesforce-sites.com/recruit/fRecruit__ApplyJob?vacancyNo=VN5582
Closing date: Sunday 12 October 2025 at 12 midnight
City of York Council (CYC) advertise vacancies on behalf of schools, academies and external organisations (third parties). CYC are not responsible for the recruitment and employment practices of these third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment or employment processes.
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