Young Person's Resilience Worker

Change Grow Live is a charity committed to helping young people create positive change in their lives. We provide support, respect and safe spaces where every young person is treated as an individual, working alongside them to achieve the goals that matter most to them.

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 Bromley Changes, children and young people’s team as a  Young Persons Resilience Worker this role includes delivering interventions to young people around drug and alcohol awareness, education and harm minimisation.

You will manage a caseload of young people, and provide 1-to-1 support for under 18-year-olds who may be curious about, experimenting with or using substances regularly.  You will also be involved with planning and running our group work programmes, and collaborate with partner agencies to ensure young people accessing the service can make safer choices and thrive.

There is a wide array of training and development opportunities to help support you in your work.

Where: Bromley

Hours: Full time, 37.5 per week

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 safe, happy andhealthy lives.
• Supporting young people from point of entry into the service and throughout their engagement with the service
• Engage young people who have substance use issues and provide them with advice, support and structured 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 drug and alcohol related harm to young people and the wider community
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
• Carry out comprehensive service user assessments and develop individual care plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing substance use and related outcomes
• Working with under-18s to support positive, holistic outcomes in relation to their health and wellbeing, enabling them to lead safer and healthier lives: reducing risk and increasing resilience.
• Support and provide advocacy for young people by participating in all relevant multi agency meetings, such as: Child Protection meetings; Complex Case Review panels, and core group meetings.

About you:

• Experience of working with young people
• Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to children and young people
• Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol 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 under-18s.
• 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 

A note about using AI in your application

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.

We want to understand your experiences, achievements and strengths, so please make sure your application reflects your own story and clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria and the impact you've made in previous roles.

There's no need to write in a particular style. The strongest applications are authentic, specific and clearly demonstrate your skills, experience and potential. We look forward to learning more about you.

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.