Join and lead our new team as Health and Wellbeing Team Leader, making a real difference in the community - Empowering Lives, One Step at a Time in Surrey! Overview The role is to support residents in Guildford and Waverley to address their alcohol use to improve health and wellbeing. You will build and sustain partnerships with primary care services and other key stakeholders to lead the provision of brief interventions, signposting and onward referral, helping to meet individuals’ needs. Responsibilities

Working with the local community, ensuring every contact counts through motivational interviewing and brief advice and intervention. Identifying and targeting known key partnerships and building/developing these relationships. Leading on the collation and review of information from a range of sources, partner agencies and residents to evaluate project success.

You will

Line manage another staff member and lead the service. Have experience of working with people who are experiencing alcohol difficulties or who are vulnerable. Carry a caseload ensuring that assessments of need are conducted thoroughly, safeguarding of those who use our service, their families and the wider community are protected from harm. Have responsibility for planning and delivery of effective treatment interventions for people. Deliver face-to-face, group work utilising evidenced based interventions.

The Service This is a new community alcohol brief intervention service targeting 2 Surrey boroughs, Guildford and Waverley. The service will work closely with primary care networks, GP’s and other key stakeholders to refer individuals that want support for their low threshold alcohol use. We will provide brief interventions, signposting and advice and guidance to support improved health and wellbeing outcomes. As a new service the successful candidate will be crucial in building new partnerships and developing service pathways and processes. Location This role will provide support dynamically across Guildford and Waverley, working from community venues and GP’s surgeries. Via have a base in Woking which is accessible to staff for this project, The Xchange, 20 High Street, Woking. Benefits 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. Equal Opportunity Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Contact For an informal chat about the role please contact Vanessa Duke, Area Director via Vanessa.Duke@viaorg.uk How to Apply The closing date for applications is Thursday 16 October at midnight. We reserve the right to close this advert early on recruitment of a successful candidate. Complete applications in a timely manner to avoid disappointment. 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). #J-18808-Ljbffr