Recovery Worker | Based in Chichester

Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week, permanent

Salary: CGL points 23 to 28 (£26,393.77 - £30,316.74)

Closing Date: 22/03/2023

Interview Date: 27/03/2023

Value Based Interview (VBI) Date: Week beginning 27/03/2023.

We are seeking a number of dynamic and enthusiastic individuals to join our CGL Young Person & Families Service at this exciting time.

You will be delivering harm reduction, assessment and treatment interventions to parents and carers (including pregnant service users) within West Sussex on an outreach basis, so use of a car is necessary. Team members are based in hubs across the county, co-located to work in a multi-disciplinary team and work county-wide.

You will have the skills to work effectively with people with alcohol and other drug issues and an ability to work confidently alongside other agencies and professionals. Working collaboratively with families to keep them together, where it is safe to do so, is at the heart of the Family Safeguarding Model and the approach is underpinned by Motivational Interviewing (MI). A bespoke package of training and induction will be provided to successful post-holders in collaboration with Children's Social Care.

The post-holders will be located across 3 geographical areas within West Sussex. Base will therefore be confirmed.

Change Grow Live are committed to creating an inclusive environment, which celebrates difference and allows our staff and service users to flourish. We recruit staff from a wide range of backgrounds, ensuring service users benefit from our diverse skills and expertise. We always work to the principles of fairness and equality of opportunity in all our recruitment processes.

We also expect an assertive approach to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults, and applicants to this post will need to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to best safeguarding practice.

Rewards and Benefits

Change Grow Live is a workplace where you are respected and your wellbeing comes first

Below are some of the benefits that we offer as an employer:

Financial support with access to Workplace pension scheme
Enhanced annual leave and sickness pay
Life assurance scheme
A range of other helpful day-to-day discounts, such as Cycle to Work Loans, Access to Blue Light Card, Motor Assistance Scheme)
Health and Wellbeing support including weekly wellbeing hour, free eye tests and Employee Assistance Program
Career Development including Career mentoring programme

Full list of benefits including our latest annual report available here: https://www.changegrowlive.org/careers-volunteering/careers

Further Information

The reference number for this role is CAFHE04378

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If you are interested in the role, we would love you to meet with us and are excited to invite you to our online open evening on the 14/03/2023. Please get in touch and we will share the link for you to join.

Contact: Anja Rijavec, Young Person and Families Service Lead on 07407 856906

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.

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