Family Practitioner (Female*) at Oasis Project

You will offer flexible, person-centred 1:1 support for parents to promote behaviour change, build recovery capital, and enhance engagement with professionals including children’s services. Some training delivery and group facilitation may also be required.

This role will include outreach, home visits and lone-working.

As Family Practitioner you will work with mothers and families affected by drug and alcohol use. This role focuses on enhancing Oasis Project’s early intervention for families through a pro-active, assertive, ‘whole family’ approach. This project includes both male and female Family Practitioner roles to ensure a gender-responsive approach to relationship-building with parents.

You will increase safety and well-being within families through acting early and working with mothers with an identified drug and alcohol need where there are indications of risk, and intervention is necessary to prevent harm escalating or repeating. You will lead multi-agency responses working in collaboration with parents and delivering individual and group work interventions to parents to address drug and alcohol misuse. This role will include some outreach, home visits and lone working.

You will work in close partnership with Young Oasis therapy and creche services, as well as colleagues within the Family Services team to ensure wrap-around support for families is well-coordinated.

You will have/need:

Proven experience in health and social care setting and/or Social work qualification, Nursing RMN RGN, NVQ level 3 in health and social care.

Proven track record of working within the drug and alcohol issues sector and managing a complex caseload
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team and participating in multi-agency relationship building and working

An understanding of current issues related to drug and alcohol issues, in particular for women and families experiencing problems

Substantial experience of delivering evidence-based family focused services and working with vulnerable families Demonstrable experience of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults legislation and processes

Experience of delivering training and coaching and facilitating groups

Leadership: Confident at taking responsibility for own behavior and relationships with all partner organisations and stakeholders

Communication: Demonstrates respect, openness, clarity, approachability,responsiveness and confidence in all areas of communications. Posess excellent IT skills and confidence at using MS office (including word, excel, outlook and powerpoint)

Team work: Is skilled at working successfully alongside others, showing proactive engagement, support for others, collaboration and openness

Problem solving: Is skilled at using creativity and innovation to solve problems and able to make critical decisions in a timely and considered manner

Possess a resilient attitude and work in a way that is reflective, adaptable and non-judgmental and adhere to professional boundaries at all times

Willingness and desire to work in an environment of continual change
Demonstrates an ongoing openness to learning

Strong commitment to equal opportunities and diversity

To be aware of best practice around confidentiality procedures and show clear understanding of data protection guidelines.

What we offer:

28 days holiday plus bank holidays.
Wellbeing support, including 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme with GP access.
Paid wellbeing hour once a month and your birthday off.
Funded monthly supervision and learning and development opportunities.
Relaxed dress code and flexible working opportunities.
Salary is £28,906 FTE

How to apply:

To find out more about the role, and for a full list of the essential and desirable criteria, please visit our website or alternatively you can email. If you would like to chat to someone about this role, please contact us via the recruitment email.

Please email your CV and covering letter, which clearly sets out your knowledge, skills and abilities in relation to the key responsibilities outlined in the job description along with your Diversity and Inclusion Monitoring form.

Please note:

· The role is based in Hastings, with service delivery extending throughout East Sussex. Therefore, the ability and willingness to travel is essential.

· Oasis Project is committed to inclusion and diversity. We welcome applications from people with disabilities and/or people from the global majority, who are currently under-represented in our organisation.

· Oasis Project is committed to lived experience being central to its service development. We welcome applications from people with relevant personal/professional experience.

· *The post is only open to female applicants as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.