Job Highlights
Application Deadline: Friday, 15 August 2025 @ 12 Noon
Location: Rochdale
Contract Type: Full Time
Remuneration: Early Break Salary Points 4 - 6: £26,648 to £28,303 per annum.
Interview Date: Wednesday, 27th August 2025
Key Focus
To deliver practice addressing the needs of alcohol/drug dependent parents who are in criminal justice settings.
To develop and implement parenting/family/children models in partnership with various community and prison stakeholders.
To contribute to monitoring and reporting systems to evidence the work.
To work with national and local researchers for project evaluation.
To collate data and write reports.
Ensure sharing of own knowledge and experience across the service.
To support the Senior Management Team at Early Break in developing and expanding whole family/parenting models in line with Business planning.
To understand the theoretical model upon which Early Break is based and work within the person-centred ethos.
To deliver individual support and group work in relation to parenting/family work.
To represent the service at relevant meetings.
Key Deliverables
To coordinate rthe oll-out of the Holding Families multi-agency working model with families in line with a structured timescale agreed with funders
To promote and champion the Holding Families model and its benefits with partner agencies
To ensure the Safeguarding of vulnerable adults and children within case work
To oversee and coordinate student placements that will support the delivery of Holding Families in line with agreed protocols
To undertake assessment, planning and review for a complex client case load of Holding Families clients – approx. 15 families
Deliver the group work element of the Holding Families offer
To provide education/information/training sessions, as appropriate
To ensure that all necessary administration, recording and reporting is undertaken to specified deadlines
To work with Senior Managers in developing and reviewing the Holding Families model to future-proof the offer
To maintain a strong awareness of the issues and best practices related to parental substance misuse and its effects on families
To support peer mentoring and volunteers linked to the Holding Families offer as and when required