Young Person's Targeted Intervention Worker

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.,

• Lead on the coordination and delivery of the service's prevention, early intervention and targeted education offers.


• To increase visibility and accessibility of the service amongst children, young people, families, and partners with the aim of increasing referrals into service for specialist support.


• Identifying and responding effectively to potential safeguarding issues.


• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community.


• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement .


• To be responsible for proactively generating and increasing referrals from relevant partners including utilising data to target specific services/provisions.


• To develop and deliver training programmes aimed at creating awareness of the service alongside delivering early intervention key messages.


• To analyse and scrutinise data to identify gaps in areas where the service can take a proactive approach to engagement.
  
  Our Young Person Targeted Intervention Workers 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.,
• Experience of working with young people and knowledge of the issues they face.


• Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to children and young people and the Fraser Competence framework.


• Have an understanding of drug and alcohol issues and be able to speak about this publicly.


• Knowledge of working with evidence-based practice around young people's substance misuse treatment services and methods.


• An accomplished communicator, both verbal and written.


• Be able to accurately plan workshops and come up with new presenting ideas and to work towards deadlines.


• Be hard working and ambitious to help young people build their resilience.
  
  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.
  
  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 and receive generous in vouchers if candidate is successful.