JOB00000493

Brent

£26,624 – £30,446 per annum, inclusive of London Weighting where appropriate

Permanent/Full Time

37.5 hours per week

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Would you like to help improve the health and wellbeing of those with drug and alcohol issues?

 

The Role

We are looking for a dynamic and committed individual to join our New Beginnings team in Brent.

This role forms part of the assessment and engagement team, with a core focus on inducting new service users into New Beginnings through our comprehensive assessment. This exciting and rewarding role will provide you with significant scope for growth and innovation within a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals.

The main purpose of this role is to provide excellent quality of care to service users accessing treatment across the Borough with a particular focus supporting service users to access treatment. By completing exceptional assessments, service users will start their treatment with the best possible opportunity of a positive outcome.

 

The Service

Via Brent, New Beginnings is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing psychosocial and clinical interventions in partnership with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL). The service is based across 2 hubs; Cobbold Road and the Willesden Centre for Health. The team actively promotes recovery and works with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing and functioning of Brent residents, irrespective of circumstance.

 

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package

 

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

 

For an informal chat about the role please contact Marva Gayle, Assessment and Engagement Team Manager via Marva.Gayle@viaorg.uk

The closing date for applications is Sunday 21 April at midnight.

Interviews are likely to take place the week commencing 29 April.

 

We only accept applications via www.viaorg.uk/careers using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit www.viaorg.uk/howtoapply. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.

Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.

Please email people@viaorg.uk if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.