Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
The Role
DHI are recruiting a Young Adults Substance Misuse Worker to support clients within the Bristol Area. We are looking for people who can bring creativity and enthusiasm to supporting Young Adults, helping them to make positive changes in their lives.
You will be joining an experienced Adult Substance Misuse team that works hard to support each other, and to deliver an exceptional service to our clients
As a Young Adults Substance Misuse Worker you will have the opportunity to work flexibly between home and DHI offices to support clients. The role is varied and interesting and requires you to carry out needs assessments and risk assessments alongside other tasks.
About You
At DHI we highly value transferable skills and life experience. If you have good organisational skills, can manage relationships, solve problems, and are resilient, adaptable and flexible then we would love to hear from you.
Your background could be from anywhere where you have needed to apply problem solving and motivational skills. Teaching, ex-armed forces, customer service are all examples of just some professions where we believe these transferable skills are often found, or you may have lived experience.
Our Values
We are an award winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and our values underpin this.
If you share DHI’s values of flexibility, stimulation, self- direction and zest for life, then we encourage you to apply.
We look forward to exploring these with you during the interview process should you be successful at the shortlisting stage.
What We Offer
We offer on the job support and mentoring within the team for this role, as well as training with regard to drug and alcohol related topics that are relevant to the post.
As an employee of DHI, you will have also access to our Employee Assistance Programme, our Cycle Scheme, 26 days paid annual leave/ up to 31 days paid leave (service-related) , company pension scheme and Charity Worker Discounts.
Next Steps
If you’d like to know more about the role contact: Louisa 07880 482577 to arrange an informal discussion. Or to apply for the Young Adults Substance Misuse Worker vacancy please follow the steps below:
To apply for this role please provide a CV and covering letter and send to recruitment@dhi-online.org.uk by midday Monday 13th January 2023.
Your covering letter should include the following three areas, each with a maximum of 500 words, using the following three bullets as your headers:
Highlight how your experience matches the Essential Criteria
State how you broadly meet the Attributes within the Person Specification
Tell us how you meet our Values
We strongly encourage you to complete our Equality & Diversity monitoring form to help us achieve a diverse workforce. The form does not form part of the selection process. Please also tell us where you found the role.
