Young Person's Resilience Worker

Change 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. 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Young Persons Resilience Worker who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs.  

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: Waltham Forest

Allowances: £2,163.27 Outer London Weighting

Hours: 37.5hrs per week

Salary: £27,449 - £31,529.41 dependent on experience\

About the role:

• To engage young people aged from 11 years to 25 years in a range of interventions, utilising a young person-centred approach, empowering them to reduce risk, increase resilience and lead a safe, happy and healthy lives.
• The post holder will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at the service named above to deliver high quality provision by:
• Strengthening coordination of multiple and simultaneous transitions to adult support (e.g. health, criminal justice, social care, welfare and education).
• Providing tailored, age-appropriate care & treatment for 11–25-year-olds within the YPSMS
• Providing screening, assessment, psychosocial interventions, integrated care planning, post treatment
• Identifying and responding effectively to potential safeguarding
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider
• Promoting carer, service user and community
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership
• 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:

• Knowledge and experience of providing interventions for service users affected by Substance use.
• Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills.
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills.
• Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice.
• Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders.
• Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users.
• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards.
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others.

What we will give to you:

• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service (for first 5 years).
• 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.  
• Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed out line of responsibilities and Person Specifications 

If this sounds like you and you would like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we would love to talk to you.