About the Role
Change Grow Live is a charity dedicated to making a difference in the lives of Service Users by offering support and respect in a safe environment. This role is ideal for someone passionate about supporting others and ready to make a meaningful impact daily. You will assess, engage, and empower Service Users, ensuring they access the right support at the right time.
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
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
- 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 with 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 your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others
- Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application
- This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level
Skills
- Excellent listening skills
- Flexibility
- Curiosity
- Good IT skills
- Time management
- Prioritising skills
- Interpersonal skills
Location
- Tower Hamlets
Work Type
- Full-time
- Fixed-term
Experience Level
- Experience of working within a similar field
- Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics
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
- One extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your 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 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.
