Young Person's Resilience Worker - Transitional Lead Young Adults - Change Grow Live

Change Grow Live
37.50
1
Huddersfield and surrounding areas
Permanent
CGL points 23 - 28: £26,393.77 - £30,316.74

Kirklees Council are advertising this role on behalf of Change Grow Live.

Overview

Following an expansion of the team, The Base are excited to advertise the role of Young Person’s Resilience Worker – Transitional Lead Young Adults.

The Base Kirklees are a confidential drug and alcohol service for young people aged up to the age of 21. We offer advice and support to young people in who are experiencing problems with drugs and alcohol. This support offered includes specialist care planned interventions, brief interventions, targeted group work, outreach, and training. The service works in a holistic way and works closely with local partners in ensuring a multi-agency approach to supporting children and young people.  

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Young Person’s Resilience worker who will hold lead responsibilities in relation to supporting the transition of young people into adulthood including throughout their journey from children’s services into adult services.

The post-holder’s focus will be to work proactively with young people to help address their substance misuse needs and alongside this, they will help forge strong working relationships and pathways with local adult support services including social care, drug and alcohol treatment, mental health and criminal justice, to help coordinate a joined-up approach to substance use and other identified needs.

The successful applicant with therefore possess excellent engagement skills and possess the ability to work in partnership with other services and share their knowledge through the delivery of training around substance misuse to other professionals.

We are looking for a creative and dynamic individual who enjoys working within a busy team. The ability to work to a high degree of accuracy and meet deadlines amongst competing priorities is vital in this position.

In return, we offer an incredibly rewarding role within a supportive and nurturing service that promotes the continuous professional development of its staff.

For Recruitment Purposes: In order to be shortlisted for this job you will need to demonstrate in your application how you meet the requirements of the role as outlined in the essential criteria.

Please refer to the job description available on the Change Grow Live Website for more details and to apply for the role. 

If you have any questions or concerns on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact Victoria Levy at Victoria.levy@cgl.org.uk

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

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.

26 March 2023, 11:55 PM

This vacancy is closed to applications.