Family 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 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 are currently looking for an individual to join our family team at our Knowsley service. You will ensure a high quality and consistent service to families with either drug and/or alcohol related issues working closely with parents and children's social care.

Where: Knowsley

Full Time Hours: 37.5 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

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 deliver support to families promoting access for service users
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services 
• Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination 

• To adhere to CGL policies and processes in delivery of services – particularly lone working and health and safety related to working with complex service users.
• To undertake focused work with families of interest. 
• To provide rapid and flexible interventions where required to meet the needs of the service users.
• Working closely with partners including Knowsley Social Care.
• As part of this role, you will be required to attend multi agency meetings and provide reports as required.
• Please see job description for further role specifics.

About you: 

• A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, community groups, etc.
• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field 
• Experience of safeguarding and working in the substance misuse field.
• Knowledge of the issue facing families where substance misuse is present.
• Good knowledge of local community-based support practices.
• Good literacy and communication skills.

What We Offer:

• 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 dedicated 'Wellness' hour each week, access to a 'Wellness' hub, and an Employee Assistance Programme.
• Participation in a contributory pension scheme.
• A wide range of benefits, including discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, and more.
• A warm and supportive team environment.
• Extensive training, career development, and progression opportunities.
• Refer a Friend Scheme.

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

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

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.