Young Person's Practitioner JOB0229

• Job Reference
• JOB0229
• Location
• Chester / Northwich / Ellesmere Port
• Salary
• £26,940 - £30,762 per annum (based on 37.5 hours pw. Salary will be pro rata to 30 hours pw)
• Vacancy Type
• Permanent/Part Time
• Working Hours
• 30 hours per week
• Application Deadline
• Thursday, October 30, 2025
• Job Summary
• Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of young people?
  Join our dedicated team at New Beginnings in Cheshire West and Chester, where your work will help shape brighter futures for young people affected by drug and alcohol misuse.The Role

  We are looking for a proactive and committed individual, someone who can work independently but also part of a team to join our New Beginnings service in Cheshire West and Chester. You will be working with a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals to provide support, advise and interventions

  This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is planned, and managed well for our Young People who access our service.

  The role will include significant travel and peripatetic outreach including into fixed youth provision settings in the evening (for example youth centres).

  You will:

  • Undertake early-intervention and prevention work in a variety of youth settings/schools/community services to prevent the progression of substance misuse and associated anti-social and risk-taking behaviour, including sexual exploitation.
  • Enable young people to develop healthy boundaries, emotional resilience and build self-esteem, providing harm reduction prevention advice, guidance and education.
  • Enable people to access education, employment, health, wellbeing and recovery activities - promoting a culture of positive occupation of time.
  • Work alongside the Early Help/Contextual Safeguarding Team and Prevention Service in Cheshire West and Chester - engaging with the wider youth service team and other stakeholder.
  • Support the day-to-day delivery of excellent drug and alcohol services young people and their significant others, including family members friends and carers.
  • Deliver peripatetic provision and outreach work to ensure that we engage all young people that need our services.

  To find out more about our service, visit

  New Beginnings in Cheshire West and Chester.Location

  There is an expectation for the successful candidate to be able to work across our three service hubs, the wider North-West. Ability to drive is essential.

  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

  For an informal discussion about the position, or if you would like to visit the service, please contact

  Jane Murphy, Service ManageronJane.Murphy@viaorg.uk

  The closing date for applications is

  Thursday 30 October at midnight.

  All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

  We accept applications via

  https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/using our short application form, and your CV. For guidance on how to complete the application visithttps://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. 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.ukif you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.
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• JD Young Person's Practitioner