About the Role
Please note that this advert may close early should sufficient applications be received, so early application is advised. Please include a cover letter with your application, outlining how you feel you meet the requirements of the role.
Closing date: Tuesday 31st March 2026
Join our team as a Training and Participation Lead in Lancashire - Job Description/Person Specification
Are you passionate about the wellbeing of young people? Do you have a genuine desire to support them in reaching their goals, exploring their values and understanding their identity? Do you have demonstrable experience of supporting young people to challenge the way they perceive wellbeing and improve their overall mental health and wellness?
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you to understand how you might be able to support the fantastic work we do here at WithYou.
As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year. Find out more about us here.
Job Opportunity
As a Training and Participation Lead in our Lancashire Young People’s service, you will build and maintain community relationships and support our teams and peer mentors to build connections with diverse communities.
Our Training and Participation Lead will deliver face to face and online training to professionals from a range of different partner agencies. Helping to increase awareness around substances and delivering the harm reduction messages.
Although this post will be covering the entirety of Lancashire, you will be based at one of our Lancashire offices (Burnley, Preston or Lancaster)
This position is offered on a full time, fixed term basis, until 31st March 2027.
Essential Skills
We’re looking for a compassionate and motivated individual, with an exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships. You will have demonstrable experience working within the health, social care, criminal justice or other specialist setting, ideally with young people and a clear motivation for working in the drug and alcohol sector. A successful track record of providing efficient and reliable customer service is essential.
You will have:
* A Volunteer Management qualification, or a Training qualification, or equivalent, or be willing to achieve this within 18 months
* Experience of planning and delivering training programmes
* Experience of working in partnership with a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies
* A thorough knowledge of safeguarding and boundaries, meaningfully involving young people in co-production and implementation
* The ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders
* A proven track record of working as an individual and as part of a team sharing skills, experience and knowledge with other
* Excellent written and communication skills
* Resilience and strong prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage competing demands
* Strong IT skills
* The ability to visit other locations in order to deliver the services required - use of a car for business purposes is required
DE&I
As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our vision of a future where everyone lives a life free from the harm associated with drugs and alcohol. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people, people of all ages and armed forces veterans.
As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also a Disability Confident Employer and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.
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Benefits
* 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
* An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
* 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
* Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
* Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
* Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
* We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period