Entry Into Service Engagement Worker - Sessional

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. 

RISE (a consortium, led by Change Grow Live, and includes Central and North West London NHS Mental Health Trust,  and service user-led organisation Build on Belief) is the integrated end-to-end treatment and recovery service which offers a wide range of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions to Ealing residents 18 years and over.

We have an exciting opportunity for Sessional Engagement Workers who have 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.

Where: Ealing

Hours: Sessional TBA

Salary: £19.85 per hour

The post holder will:

• Work with service users to identify personalised management plans and activities to support reducing substance use behaviours.
• Support and act as a service user advocate and connect them with other services to help them manage their dependencies
• Provide crisis intervention, offer emotional, practical and psychosocial support by practicing active listening, motivational interviewing techniques and solution-focused approaches to work through individual needs
• Support services users to develop social skills and work on behaviour management to maximise social inclusion and help them integrate more in their community and to engage with relevant statutory services.

About you:

• Have an interest in working within in a drug and alcohol setting.
• Experience of having worked with vulnerable people in either mental health or drug and alcohol services
• Awareness of the multi-systemic issues experienced by people affected directly and indirectly by substance and alcohol use
• Demonstrate a high level of verbal/written communication
• Able to develop and maintain the therapeutic alliance

CGL are committed to creating an inclusive environment, which celebrates difference and allows our staff and service users to flourish. We recruit the very best staff from a wide range of backgrounds, ensuring service users’ benefit from our diverse skills and expertise. We always work to the principles of fairness and equality of opportunity in all our recruitment processes.

Please ensure you refer to the person specification (located within the job description) and provide all information you feel will demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience required. 

Please read attached Job Description & Role Specifics for a more detailed outline of responsibilities 

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions. More information about eligible roles and occupations can be found here: Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.