Overview:
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.
Our
Early Interventions Co-ordinator will play an integral role within Change Grow Live, engaging young people in a range of interventions, using a young person-centred approach, and empowering our young service users to reduce risk, increase resilience and lead a safe, happy, and healthy lives.
You’ll have to record information about what you do, so enjoying a bit of paperwork and attention to detail is important. But most of the time you’ll be enjoying working with people from all backgrounds, making a difference to their lives. No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.
Where: Knowsley, Merseyside
Hours: 37.5 hrs per week
Salary: CGL salary points 23-28
Responsibilities:
About the role:
- To work closely with service users and partnership agencies, to engage children & young people in a range of interventions, utilising a young person centred approached, empowering them to reduce risk, increase resilience and lead a safe, happy, and healthy life.
- Providing interventions for young people in the community.
- Working alongside professionals identifying young people at risk of involvement with the criminal justice system, exploitation, or gang involvement, where there is drug and alcohol use support requirements/early intervention needed.
- Providing groups, trainings and assemblies for young people, professionals, and parents/carers.
- Delivering high quality tier 2 and tier 3 psychosocial interventions
- Lead on the coordination and delivery of the service’s universal, early
intervention, prevention & education offers
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 experiences of working within a related field.
- 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.
- 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.
What we will give to you:
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service (for first 5 years).
- 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.
Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed out line of responsibilities and Person Specifications
We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.
The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.
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 Interview Date: 6/6/2023 Closing Date: 21/5/2023 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:: Wendy Clarke | wendy.clarke@cgl.org.uk | +447880002574 : This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.