Family Practitioner

Job Description

Family Practitioner

Salary: £26,006 per annum plus Island allowance of £1,795 pro rata

Location: Stornoway

Contract/Hours: Permanent – Full-Time – 37 hours per week

Reward: 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, professional qualifications, excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages, up to 7% employer contribution pension, discount portal with your favourite brands.

Our early intervention substance support service works across Lewis and Harris with young people aged 9 18 years, who are identified as having been under the influence of alcohol or a substance and/or using substances or alcohol regularly. We also work with children or young people who are affected by a family member or someone close to them who uses substances or alcohol.

We aim to provide support and assistance to those who are not currently heavily involved with statutory agencies where possible, working with whole families to reduce the harms associated with drug and alcohol use. We collaborate with local statutory and non statutory agencies to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families. We provide regular individual harm reduction based 1:1 sessions on drugs and alcohol, support around triggers, alternative coping strategies, abstinence and relapse management, and a person centred approach to address issues affecting well being such as family issues, education difficulties, community problems, mental health, trauma or loss.

How You’ll Help to Create Brighter Futures

• Providing a high quality service to children, young people and their families, based on an assessment of need and outcomes driven.
• Delivering specialist interventions with families and their babies on a 1:1 basis or group setting.
• Providing lead case/care planning management, including undertaking assessing, reviewing, and managing risks.
• Attending and participating at relevant multi agency meetings, providing a lead role ensuring reflective and analytical practice review.

Let’s Talk About You

• Previous experience working with parents and/or children.
• Understanding of delivering family support.
• Minimum of HNC in a related field (or an equivalent relevant degree qualification).
• Knowledge of working with multi agency partnerships.
• Full driver’s licence and access to a vehicle to enable the duties of the role to be carried out.
• Essential training will be provided.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

At Action for Children, we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children. Male staff are under represented within our Children Service roles; we would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.