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Senior Worker

Location Bristol-Gloucestershire
Job ID 2026-19674
Number of Vacancies Remaining
1
Category
Health and Social Care Practitioner
Type of Contract
Permanent employee
Contracted Hours Per Week
37.50
Salary Range (pro rata if part time)
CGL points 28 to 30 (£32,002.35 - £34,214.20)
ILW / OLW /Fringe
N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

Overview

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 Senior Worker to help support a recovery culture within the team and across the wider prison – utilising their expertise to help continually develop the service and support the team and people using the services.

 

The Senior Worker will work with the Team Leader to build partnerships that will help support the recovery process and continuity of care after release and cover for the Team Leader in their absence. You will lead the team’s approach to Peer Mentoring, including capturing all key data and line managing volunteers and Support Workers at relevant sites. You will help ensure that recovery pathways in the prison are visible and effective all the way from induction to release and beyond.

 

Where: HMP Bristol 

Full Time Hours: 37.5 per week 

Contract Type: Permanent 

 

Please note: 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: 

  • Identify, and engage with, people who have substance misuse problems with complex physical and / or mental health needs, including co-morbidity. Providing advice, support and recovery focused structured clinical and/or psychosocial interventions to support recovery and primary health care needs.
  • Carry out comprehensive assessments and develop recovery plans that clearly identify how they will enable progression in addressing substance use and re/integrating into the community.
  • Further develop CGL’s links with local recovery groups / mutual aid groups
  • Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality are adhered to and ensure consent to share information is always obtained.
  • Provide health education especially in regard to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention.
  • Carry out key harm reduction strategies such as running of the Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
  • Support the Team Leader to carry out case file audits and ensure findings encourage a culture of learning within the team, to help improve service user outcomes via the delivery of team learning packages.
  • Deputise for Team Leaders in meetings, when necessary
  • When applicable, manage the recruitment, supervision and development of Peer Mentors and Volunteers.

 

About You:

We’re looking for a compassionate, skilled and experience professional who:

  • Has experience working with complex substance use needs in a harm reduction or recovery-focused setting.
  • Is passionate about empowering people to make informed choices about their health and well-being.
  • Has a positive leadership style and engages well with service users and colleagues
  • Is confident in safeguarding practice and policies
  • Is confident in developing partnerships to improve service accessibility and engagement.
  • Can provide training and guidance to colleagues, sharing knowledge around harm reduction and interventions.

 

What We Offer:

  • A supportive and inclusive team culture.
  • 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us.
  • A weekly wellness hour, plus access to an Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Access to a pension scheme and shopping, cinema, and holiday discounts.
  • Training and career development opportunities.
  • Refer a Friend Scheme

 

Please reflect the attached Job Description and Person Specifications in your application. 

  

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. 

 

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. 

 

Salary is subject to review in line with the 2025/26 pay award.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

CGL points 28 to 30 (£32,002.35 - £34,214.20)

ILW / OLW /Fringe

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

Interview Date

11/5/2026

Closing Date

3/5/2026

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Ryan Young | ryan.young@cgl.org.uk

 

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

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We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.