Young Person's Resilience Worker - Exploitation Lead

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference in 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. 

Positive Futures Gateshead are excited to advertise the role of Young Person’s Resilience Worker – Exploitation Lead

Positive Futures Gateshead are a confidential drug and alcohol service for young people aged up to the age of 18. We offer advice and support to young people who are experiencing problems with drugs and alcohol. This support offered includes specialist care planned interventions, brief interventions, targeted group work, outreach, and training. The service works in a holistic way and works closely with local partners in ensuring a multi-agency approach to supporting children and young people.  

As a Young Person's Resilience Worker, your focus will be to work proactively with young people to help address their substance misuse needs and alongside this, they will help forge strong working relationships and pathways with statutory partners including children’s social care teams to help coordinate a joined-up approach to substance use and other identified needs.

Where: Gateshead

Hours: 37.5 per week (full time)

Salary Range: £27,449.53- £31,393.77 dependant on experience (based on full time working hours, pro rata for part time hours)

About the role: 

• To holistically support CYP affected by substance misuse, using a range of interventions including group work, 1:1 work, whole family interventions, safety planning and safeguarding working closely and proactively with the family unit to support positive and sustainable outcomes.
• Identify families in conjunction with other agencies, who will benefit from a Think Family / Whole family approach, negotiating participation and engagement with the programme of care.
• Identifying and responding effectively to potential safeguarding issues. 

• To be the exploitation lead withing positive futures working closely with the DSL and contextualised safeguarding team

• To provide targeted and specialist 1-2-1 interventions to young people who are vulnerable to exploitation

• To provide drug and alcohol training around emerging trends to contextualised safeguarding social workers

• To attend and contribute to peer mapping and complex abuse meetings

 About you: 

• Experience of working with young people and knowledge of the issues they face 
• Understanding of the issues YP face in regards to being at risk of exploitation
• 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.

If you require sponsorship, please note that this role is not eligible for a Health and Care Worker visa. You may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route but must meet the minimum salary requirements for the role. You can find out more here Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) 

For Recruitment Purposes: In order to be shortlisted for this job you will need to demonstrate in your application how you meet the requirements of the role as outlined in the essential criteria.

If this resonates with you and you're eager to embark on a fulfilling journey with Change Grow Live, we'd be delighted to connect with you.