Adfam is seeking to recruit a skilled, enthusiastic and energetic Kinship Care Coordinator to deliver our Children in Need project in Peterborough.

The successful applicant will have experience in working with children and families and will build on this already successful project to provide activities and support to children in kinship care and their families.

The Drug Abuse Treatment Specialist provides individual and group counselling/therapy to inmates with drug abuse problems within the BOP’s treatment framework. He/she is also responsible for the education of prison staff about drug abuse, drug abuse treatment and the local prison program.

The mission of Mentor is to promote the health and well being of children and young people in order to prevent alcohol and drug misuse.

The Director of Programmes role will support the delivery of Mentor’s strategic aim to understand what works in prevention, to develop and evaluate a range of universal and targeted based programmes and to disseminate those findings.

The Research and Policy Analyst conducts research and responds to research requests (both internal to CCSA and external). They will provide research-based policy analysis relevant to CCSA's priorities and aid in the knowledge mobilisation of research findings.

Research Assistant- University of Nottingham

The primary objective of this study will be to develop and pilot test the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention to help prevent prisoners relapse to smoking after release. 

The main duties will include recruitment of participants (HMPPS staff members and prisoners), data collection, data analysis, assist with intervention development and refining related intervention materials/resources, co-facilitate Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) groups, contribute to the ethical application for the pilot intervention, and preparation of manuscripts for peer-review publication.

Director of Research & Policy- Alcohol Change UK

Alcohol Change UK exists to eliminate harm and to help people across the UK to develop a positive relationship with alcohol.

The Director of Research & Policy is a member of the senior management team and leads the charity’s research and policy functions. Working closely with the CEO and the Wales Office, the postholder defines and ensures the delivery of, a range of plans and work programmes across these two key functions.

Reducing Alcohol-related Harms through Physical Activity

The aim of this interdisciplinary PhD cluster is to develop an understanding of the relationship between excessive alcohol consumption and physical activity in reducing harms.

PhD Project 1: Development of a lifestyle physical activity intervention for women who misuse alcohol

PhD Project 2: Elucidating the relationships between physical activity, physical and psychological health status (including mood, stress) and alcohol misuse in women

PhD Project 3: Exploring the role of physical activity in the treatment of alcohol disorders

The Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention (TCTBI) is seeking a full-time, contract Research Analyst.

Duties include but are not limited to the administration of brain stimulation protocols and other neurophysiological tests in addition to clinical and cognitive assessments of enrolled participants; independent participant recruitment, education and dissemination of information about studies to patients, families and mental health professionals, assessment scoring and data entry.

Addaction works with adults and young people, in community settings, in prisons, in residential rehab and through outreach.

The operations manager will form part of the Management Team to support the delivery of the service contract, and ensure the smooth operational delivery of recovery-orientated treatment in the service.