Young Person's Resilience Worker Croydon, England
Change Grow Live
Full Time
Croydon, England
26394 - 30317 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Overview:
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.
Working as a Young Persons Resilience Worker, you will support our young service users and address any issues or concerns they have about drugs & alcohol. You will play a key role in delivering a drug prevention offer in Croydon secondary schools with a focus on equipping young people with the skills and knowledge they need to make safer and informed decisions around drugs and alcohol.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has experience in a similar field looking to take the next step in their career.
Responsibilities:
Where: Croydon, London
When: We’re looking to get the right people in to the team ASAP
Hours: 37.5hrs per week
Salary: £26,393.77 - £30,316.74 dependent on experience
With Outer London Weighting (£2,080.07)
What we will give to you:
- 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
About the role:
- Engage young people who have substance use issues 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, 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 (e.g. home, school, youth/community centres) and communicating via social media methods.
- To be creative and innovative so that the post best meets the needs of the service user, promoting access in to 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.
- Where appropriate, assist and carry out appropriate screening processes including DBST, urine and saliva tests, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
- To carry out key harm reduction strategies such as facilitating supported access to Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience
About you:
- Experience of working with young people
- Knowledge of issues facing young people today.
- 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.
- Knowledge of working with evidence based practice around young people’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.
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.
Please note: This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 23 to 28 (£26,393.77 - £30,316.74) ILW / OLW /Fringe: Outer London Weighting (£2,080.07) Closing Date: 13/6/2023 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:: Marsha Buchanan | [email protected] | 07769205626 : This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
Change Grow Live
www.changegrowlive.org
Brighton, United Kingdom
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Private
