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About the Role

Change Grow Live is a charity dedicated to helping individuals change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. This role supports service users from point of entry through their treatment and recovery journey, ensuring they access the right intervention at the right time. The position requires flexibility, curiosity, and strong listening skills due to the varied nature of daily tasks and individualised support.

Responsibilities

Support service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey.
Provide screening, assessment, recovery planning, and onward referral.
Manage a caseload.
Reduce drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community.
Promote carer, service user, and community involvement.
Provide advocacy for access to partnership services.
Work with service users to support social (re)integration, 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 in debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods, reviewing progress and identifying concerns.
Tailor specific workshops around service user needs, such as anger management, sleep disorders, and relationships.

Requirements

Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field.
Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour.
Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills.
Be proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills.
Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice.
Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills.
Possess the 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 and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others.
Must have the right to work in the UK.
Application must be written in the applicant's own words.

Skills

Substance misuse understanding
Group work experience
Verbal communication
Written communication
IT skills
Time management
Prioritisation
Mental health interventions knowledge
Interpersonal skills
Partnership working
Change management

Location

Camden

Work Type

Full Time

Experience Level

Experience of working within a similar field
Experience of working with groups/pods

Salary/Compensations

CGL points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 - £32,802.41)
Inner London Weighting (£4,236.47)

Benefits

25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays
Additional day of annual leave for each year of service during the first five years (up to 30 days)
Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week
‘Wellness’ hub
Employee Assist Programme
Contributory pension scheme
Discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
Friendly and supportive team
Training, career development & progression opportunities
Generous Refer-a-Friend Scheme

About the Company

Change Grow Live is 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.