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SalaryChange Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.
Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
Our Young Person Resilience Workers play an integral role within Change Grow Live, engaging young people in a range of interventions, using a young person-centred approach, and empowering our young service users to reduce risk, increase resilience and lead a safe, happy, and healthy lives.
You’ll have to record information about what you do, so enjoying a bit of paperwork and attention to detail is important. But most of the time you’ll be enjoying working with people from all backgrounds, making a difference to their lives. No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.
Where: Walsall
Hours: 37.5 FTC 12 Month's
About the role:
- Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
- Providing screening, assessment, psychosocial interventions, integrated care planning, post treatment support, including transfer of care
- Identifying and responding effectively to potential safeguarding issues
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
- Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
- Working with service users to support positive, holistic outcomes in relation to their health and
- wellbeing, enabling them to lead safe, healthy, and purposeful lives: reducing risk and increasing resilience
About you:
- Experience of working with young people and knowledge of the issues they face
- Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to children and young people and the Fraser Competence framework
- Have an excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working
- within a related field
- Knowledge of working with evidence-based practice around young people’s substance misuse treatment services and methods, including relevant best practice guidance
- An accomplished communicator, both verbal and written with a high degree of personal IT competency
- Be able to accurately update and maintain records and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g., reports
- Have excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative
- approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives
What we will give to you:
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- A friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities
- Refer a friend scheme and receive £250 in vouchers if candidate is successful.
If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 23 to 28 (£27,449.52 - 31,529.41) ILW / OLW /Fringe: N/A - Outside London Weighting Area Interview Date: 4/4/2024 Closing Date: 21/3/2024 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:: Alexandra Sroczynski | alexandra.sroczynski@cgl.org.uk | 07827872091 : This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
