Overview
Trainee Drug and Alcohol Practitioner – Hull
Permanent
£18,601.18
**Please note this is a 12 month contract, this is a part-time role 28 hours per week**
About the Role
Are you passionate about helping others and developing a rewarding career in drug and alcohol recovery services?
We’re offering a unique Traineeship opportunity to join our team as a Trainee Drug and Alcohol Practitioner.
As part of this traineeship, you’ll receive hands-on experience working alongside experienced professionals, gaining valuable insight into the role. You’ll shadow a member of the team who will provide ongoing guidance, mentoring, and support, ensuring you receive the training and development needed to become fully competent in the role.
You’ll have regular reviews to help you stay on track to successfully complete the traineeship and the compulsory therapy and qualification components (subject to eligibility criteria).
Your time will be split between practical work-based learning and studying towards a nationally recognised qualification.
Key Responsibilities
Through tailored training, supervision, and mentoring, you will develop skills in:
- Planning and managing your own caseload effectively
- Reviewing ongoing care and liaising with healthcare and partner agencies
- Co-facilitating groups and programmes to required standards
- Working within a multi-disciplinary and integrated team
- Collecting and recording data for audit, research, and reporting purposes
- Carrying out assessments (risk, initial, comprehensive) to inform individual treatment journeys
- Delivering 1:1 sessions and facilitating group work/programmes
- Supporting service users in developing and achieving recovery plans
- Gaining competency to carry out the second signatory process
- Undertaking other reasonable duties as required by line management
About You
To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate:
- If in recovery from addiction: a minimum of 2 years abstinence from all substances and a strong commitment to maintaining recovery (Essential, if applicable)
- A strong understanding of the needs of vulnerable adults in recovery, including those with experience of offending or homelessness
- An understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities and client confidentiality
- The ability to manage your workload effectively and meet deadlines and targets
- A clear sense of professional boundaries and the ability to maintain them
- Excellent organisational and communication skills
- A commitment to completing a nationally recognised qualification
About Us
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits –
- Flexible working
- Training and development opportunities
- Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Crisis Loan Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
- 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata’d for part time employees)
- Access to Blue Light Card
- 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
- Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
- Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
- Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.
To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.
Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.
