Young Person's Resilience Worker - Vaping Practitioner

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. 

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 safer, happy, and healthy lives.

This is a unique chance to sculpt the creation of a brand-new role dedicated to supporting young people who use vapes. We’re looking for a passionate, forward-thinking individual to join our team and, with the guidance of our Team Leader, bring this role to life within a large organisation.

You will be able to work effectively with young people who vape, and may be using substances, and be able to work confidently with other agencies and professionals.

You will deliver training to professionals, facilitate workshops, conduct assessments, and provide harm reduction and treatment interventions to young people across the London Borough of Ealing, working on an outreach basis.

We expect an assertive approach to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults.  Applicants to this post will need to demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, best safeguarding practice.

Where: London Borough of Ealing

Hours: Fulltime, 37.5 per week

Salary: £27,861.26 - £32,002.35 Pro Rata, Depending on experience.

Allowance: £4,133.14 Inner London Weighting 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.

About the role:

• To engage young people in a range of interventions, utilising a young person centred approach, empowering them to reduce risk, increase resilience and lead a safer, happy and healthy lives.
• Supporting young service users from point of entry into the service and through their journey.
• Engage young people who are using vapes and provide them with advice, support and interventions to support their health and wellbeing needs.
• Providing screening, assessment, psychosocial interventions, integrated care planning, post treatment support, including transfer of care.
• Identifying and responding effectively to potential safeguarding issues.
• Reducing vaping related harm to young service users.
• Support and provide advocacy for young people by participating in all relevant multi agency meetings, including: Child Protection meetings; Complex Case Review panels and Team Around the Child meetings

About you:

• Experience of working with young people.
• Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to children and young people.
• Understanding of vapes and vaping issues and experience of working within a related field.
• Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency.
• Knowledge of working with evidence based practice around young people’s substance misuse treatment services and methods, including relevant best practice guidance.
• A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for young people.
• 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.
• Several benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc. 
• A friendly and supportive team 
• Training, career development & progression opportunities  

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.

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.