Title: Young Persons Substance Use - Health & Wellbeing Practitioner
Location: London
Department: Compass Safe East
Advertising salary: £29,545 - £34,683 (plus £4500 London Weighting Allowance)
Contract: Permanent
Duration: Not Specified
Hours per week: 37

About the role
Join our passionate team and help children, young people and families improve their health, wellbeing and life opportunities.

As a Young Persons Substance Use - Health & Wellbeing Practitioner within Compass Safe East, you will provide support to children, young people and families across Tower Hamlets. The service offers advice, guidance and interventions on a wide range of health and wellbeing topics, including emotional wellbeing, healthy lifestyles, relationships, school challenges, substance use and access to specialist support.

Using a person centred and trauma informed approach, you will undertake assessments, develop support plans and deliver one to one and group interventions. Working across schools, community settings and partner organisations, you will help young people build resilience, improve wellbeing and access the support they need to thrive.

You will play an important role in delivering prevention and early intervention work while collaborating with families and professionals to achieve positive outcomes.

About you
We are looking for someone who has:

• Experience working with children and young people.
• Experience supporting young people with emotional wellbeing, health, substance use or related needs.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, risk assessment and child development.
• Experience working collaboratively with families, professionals and partner agencies.
• Excellent communication, engagement and relationship building skills.
• The ability to manage a varied caseload and maintain accurate records.
• A flexible, compassionate and solution focused approach.

A qualification in youth work, social work, psychology, counselling, mental health, substance use, or a related field is essential.

Experience delivering health promotion, prevention or early intervention programmes would be helpful but is not essential.

If you are committed to helping children and young people overcome challenges, improve their wellbeing and reach their full potential, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits
Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Established for over 30 years, Compass is a national charity which works in communities across the UK providing services spanning substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation, early interventions for vulnerable young people, school-aged health programmes and associated prevention as well as treatment and health promotion initiatives.

All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks.

We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce.

We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.

Benefits
We offer a range of benefits including:

• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, rising to 32 days over time (pro rata)
• Life assurance at 2 x basic salary
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and OH service
• Enhanced sick pay
• Excellent learning & development opportunities and career progression
• Annual salary review

Help us to make a positive change to the lives of children and young people!

Closing Date: 30.09.2026

Compass is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All Compass posts are subject to appropriate level DBS checks. We positively encourage applications from all members of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation, and encourage applications from people who have experiences in life which enrich skills and empathy. This is part of our commitment to equality and developing a truly inclusive and representative workforce. We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments individuals may require in the recruitment process, on commencement, or once in post.