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About the Role
Change Grow Live is a charity supporting individuals with drug-related issues through substitute prescribing treatment. This role involves working within community and outreach settings, delivering support to people using opiates to help them access services and improve their life opportunities. Flexibility, curiosity, and good listening skills are essential as no two days are the same.
Responsibilities
- Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
- Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
- Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
- 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
- Research, design and prepare subject matter and materials for groups / pods
- Deliver structured content within group settings to service users at various stages of recovery
- Engage with debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods have taken place, reviewing progress and identifying concerns with service users
- Tailor specific workshops around the needs of the service users, such as: anger management, sleep disorders, relationships, etc
- Work across community locations and in partnership with organisations such as domestic abuse services, Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) networks and other local women’s support providers
Requirements
- Strong understanding of substance misuse issues
- Experience working within a similar field
- Previous experience working in a drug and alcohol service is required
- Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Good IT skills
- Proactive and able to work on own initiative
- Excellent time management and prioritising skills
- Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice
- Supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders
- Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
- Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
- Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden professional knowledge and skills
- Contribute and oversee the learning and development of others
- Experience supporting clients with opiate dependence and recovery
- Must have the right to work in the UK
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship
Skills
- Substance misuse issues
- Drug and alcohol services
- Group dynamics management
- Conflict resolution
- Challenging behaviour management
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- IT skills
- Time management
- Prioritisation
- Mental health interventions
- Interpersonal skills
- Partnership working
- Change management
- Information governance
- Opiate dependence support
- Opiate recovery support
Location
- Newham
Work Type
- Full Time
- Weekend work
- Evening work
Experience Level
- Previous experience working in a drug and alcohol service is required
- Candidates must have experience supporting clients with opiate dependence and recovery
Salary/Compensations
- CGL points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 - £32,802.41)
- Inner London Weighting (£4,236.47)
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service (Capped at 30 days)
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week
- ‘Wellness’ hub
- Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- Training, career development & progression opportunities
- Refer a friend scheme (£250 in vouchers if candidate is successful)
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.