Job description
Manchester CGL - Eclypse is looking to recruit, a Young Person's Resilience Worker within our dynamic YP Service. You will be leading on Early Intervention and Prevention. You will work in localities and responsible coordinating the training offer on substances targeting education and early prevention.
Working as a Young Person Resilience Worker, you will support our service users and address any issues or concerns they have about drugs & alcohol. You will carry a caseload offering support to highly vulnerable young people, children, and their families in the Manchester area. You will play a key role in equipping young people with the skills and knowledge they need to make safer and informed decisions around drugs and alcohol in relation to offending and exploitation. Experience in delivering one to one and group interventions is desirable. You will contribute building relationships with related services. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has experience in a similar field looking to take the next step in their career.
Where: Manchester
- Engage young people & children, who have substance use issues within YCJ settings and provide them with advice, support and structured interventions to support their health and wellbeing needs. This may include facilitating access to and supporting clinical interventions.
- Build therapeutic relationships and deliver a personalised package of care.
- 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.
- Work closely with your service’s Safeguarding Lead/Manager and Team Leader to ensure all issues and concerns are escalated and dealt with quickly and effectively.
- Further develop CGL's links with local children, young people and family services. This includes adult drug and alcohol services.
- Support and provide advocacy for young people by participating in all relevant multiagency meetings including Child Protection meetings; Complex Case Review panels and Team Around the Child meetings.
- Adopting a proactive approach to engagement, maximising service accessibility. This includes delivering interventions peripatetically from our Manchester based offices, home, community venues, schools, colleges and Universities.
- To be creative and innovative so that the post best meets the needs of the service user, promoting access into treatment, and continued engagement with underrepresented communities.
- Coordinate integrated approaches to support young people achieving holistic outcomes in meeting their care plan. This may include supporting young people into education, employment or training opportunities.
- Provide health education especially in regard to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention.
- Work closely with our clinical team and our alcohol nurse team if in need of medical interventions
- To carry out key harm reduction strategies
- Experience of working with young people, children and families
- Knowledge of issues facing young people today.
- Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to adults, children and young people.
- Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
- Knowledge of working with evidence-based practice around young adult’s substance misuse treatment services and methods, including relevant best practice guidance.
- Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users.
- Ability to manage challenging behaviour in a calm and professional manner.
- Ability to liaise and work in partnership with a wide range of professionals and agencies.
- Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to engage successfully with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- An ability to travel to different locations throughout the service area.
- Experience of working with young people, children and families
- Knowledge of issues facing young people today.
- Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to adults, children and young people.
- Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
- Knowledge of working with evidence-based practice around young adult’s substance misuse treatment services and methods, including relevant best practice guidance.
- Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users.
- Ability to manage challenging behaviour in a calm and professional manner.
- Ability to liaise and work in partnership with a wide range of professionals and agencies.
- Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to engage successfully with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- An ability to travel to different locations throughout the service area.
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service
- Flexible working arrangements
- 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
If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 23 to 28 (£26,393.77 - £30,316.74) ILW / OLW /Fringe: N/A - Outside London Weighting Area Closing Date: 7/7/2023 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:: Elpiniki Papadopoulou | [email protected] | 01618392054 : This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.