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 person 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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join CGL The Place in Nottingham's young adults team. This role includes delivering targeted interventions to young adults around drug and alcohol awareness, education and prevention. You will hold a caseload of young adults and support them on a one-to-one basis through our different treatment pathways. You will help run and plan our group work programmes, support people through alcohol, and non-opiate treatment, and interact with partner agencies to ensure young adults accessing the service can improve and change their lives. Don’t worry, there is a wide array of training and development opportunities to help support you in your work.

Location: This role will be based across Nottingham

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 per week

Full Time Salary Range: £27,861.26- £32,002.35* pro rata

* Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours

Responsibilities

About the role: 

• Supporting young adults from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
• Providing harm reduction information, 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 young adults and the wider community
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
• Working with young adults 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
• Working flexibly across sites where required 

About you: 

• Experience of working with young adults and knowledge of the issues they face
• Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to children and young people and the Fraser Competence framework
• Have a good understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field
• 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.

Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role. 

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.