Job Highlights
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 22nd July 2026 @ 12 Noon
Location: Bury, Salford, Trafford
Contract Type: Full-time, 37 hours per week Contract Duration: Fixed Term Funding - 18 Months
Renumeration: Early Break Salary Points Range 5-9: £28,589.60 - £31,812.56
Interview Date: Thursday, 30th July 2026
Key Focus
This is a new project in Early Break. The focus will develop a responsive service based on the needs of parents within an existing young people’s drug and alcohol treatment system.
Offer support/guidance and advice to parents and carers in response to children’s substance use and broader risk-taking issues
Be an organised individual who is able to manage a case load of parents/carers of young substance users
Alongside established colleagues be able to deliver training and support for external partners in relation to substance use and related issues including creation and delivery of trauma informed parenting groups
Have experience of completing holistic assessments and developing care plans
To provide advice and guidance to parents/carers and professionals
The role will hold responsibility to develop innovations based on Early Breaks existing Stress Out Brain Model. This will include co production with parents to develop interventions and professional training
To understand the theoretical model upon which Early Break is based and work within the person-centred ethos.
Key Deliverables
To provide interventions alongside/in partnership with our specialist substance workers by supporting parents/carers of young people using substances.
To promote and champion best practice in parenting and family work with partner agencies.
To ensure that all necessary administration, recording and reporting is undertaken to specified deadlines including, where necessary the development of such reports
Offering one-to-one support for parents/carers and facilitating their group work sessions
Providing advice, information and guidance to parents/carers managing young person’s substance use.
To manage work load effectively over commissioned localities.
Awareness of specialist-based services/parenting offers and ability to signpost parents/ carers according to need.
To work alongside the leadership team to develop and/or implement new parenting/carers models and be an integral part of designing resources for parents.
Capturing voice of parents to inform service development.
To ensure the Early Help and Safeguarding of vulnerable adults and children within case work is undertaken.
To develop and implement service systems and reporting for new models and review these systems as part of service Clinical Governance framework.
To provide education, information and training sessions, as appropriate.
To support in ensuring full risk assessments and risk management is delivered effectively