Team Leader

Make a Difference Every Day

Are you a passionate and inspiring leader who wants to help people make positive changes in their lives?

Our Team Leaders here at Change Grow Live play an integral role in ensuring an effective service provision for our service users by creating a focussed culture, engaging staff to provide an innovative and continually improving service and provide leadership, support, and development to a wide range of staff.   

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Team Leader to join our Halton service. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated team, oversee our thriving community café, champion volunteer and peer mentor development, and support people on their recovery journey.

As a Team Leader, you will provide visible leadership, promote a positive and inclusive culture, and ensure high-quality support and recovery-focused services are delivered across the service.

Where: Halton

Hours: Part-Time, 34 hours per week

Contract: 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

About you: 

• Experience of working with Adults experiencing difficulties around substance use and multiple complexities.
• Excellent knowledge of drugs and alcohol and their effects.
• Line management experience
• The ability to lead, empower and motivate a team.
• Excellent knowledge of safeguarding policies and practices and experience of embedding these operationally.
• The ability to foster new partnerships and to maintain positive relationships with partner agencies.
• Knowledge of a range of psychosocial and evidence-based interventions around substance misuse.
• Knowledge and experience of community-based support/outreach practices.
• Ability to ensure all record keeping, outcome monitoring and data collection is maintained effectively.
• Communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing.
• Respond flexibly to the demands of the post.
• The ability to keep calm under pressure.
• Show commitment to facilitating positive outcomes for Adults.

What we will give to you: 

• 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.
• 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.  

AI can be a really helpful tool when putting together your application, and we're happy for you to use it. However, what we're most interested in is you.

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