Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference in 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.
Positive Futures Gateshead are excited to advertise the role of Young Person’s Resilience Worker – Exploitation Lead
Positive Futures Gateshead are a confidential drug and alcohol service for young people aged up to the age of 18. We offer advice and support to young people 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.
As a Young Person's Resilience Worker, your 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 statutory partners including children’s social care teams to help coordinate a joined-up approach to substance use and other identified needs.
Where: Gateshead
Hours: 37.5 per week (full time)
Salary Range: £27,449.53- £31,393.77 dependant on experience (based on full time working hours, pro rata for part time hours)
ResponsibilitiesAbout the role:
To holistically support CYP affected by substance misuse, using a range of interventions including group work, 1:1 work, whole family interventions, safety planning and safeguarding working closely and proactively with the family unit to support positive and sustainable outcomes.Identify families in conjunction with other agencies, who will benefit from a Think Family / Whole family approach, negotiating participation and engagement with the programme of care.Identifying and responding effectively to potential safeguarding issues.To be the exploitation lead withing positive futures working closely with the DSL and contextualised safeguarding team
To provide targeted and specialist 1-2-1 interventions to young people who are vulnerable to exploitation
To provide drug and alcohol training around emerging trends to contextualised safeguarding social workers
To attend and contribute to peer mapping and complex abuse meetings
About you:
Experience of working with young people and knowledge of the issues they face Understanding of the issues YP face in regards to being at risk of exploitationKnowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to children and young people and the Fraser Competence framework Have an 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 An accomplished communicator, both verbal and written with a high degree of personal IT competency Be able to accurately update and maintain records and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g., reports Have excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectivesWhat we will give to you:
25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days” 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 Refer a friend scheme.
If you require sponsorship, please note that this role is not eligible for a Health and Care Worker visa. You may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route but must meet the minimum salary requirements for the role. You can find out more here Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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.
If this resonates with you and you're eager to embark on a fulfilling journey with Change Grow Live, we'd be delighted to connect with you.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time) CGL points 23 to 28 (£27,449.52 - £31,529.41) ILW / OLW /Fringe N/A - Outside London Weighting Area Interview Date 12/3/2025 Closing Date 28/2/2025 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details: Kirsty Martin | kirsty.martin@cgl.org.uk This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level. Options ApplyApplyShareEmail this job to a friendRefer <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> </span></p> Share this vacancy on your newsfeed
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.
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