Life Skills Worker

6 months ago


Truro, United Kingdom We Are With You Full time

**All applicants need to submit a CV and a covering letter on why you should be considered for this role. Applications will not be accepted if no covering letter is included.**

Our team in Truro, Cornwall, are recruiting for an experienced Life Skills Worker to join them in guiding a diverse client group. You will be responsible for promoting life skills to our service users to encourage a positive exit from the service. If you are passionate about changing people’s lives for the better, we’d love to hear from you.

You will be a compassionate and motivated individual with the ability to connect quickly with the people we support and external stakeholders. We are looking for someone who has demonstrable experience of working with substance misuse service users, as well as experience of delivering successful training or other group activities to clients and peers. You will be highly organised, with excellent communication skills and able to manage your time effectively.

Above all, we are looking for someone who is passionate about what we do, with a positive and engaging approach to our service users and staff.

A full job description and person specification is available on request.

**Diversity Statement**

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.

**REQUIRED SKILLS**:

- Demonstrable experience of working with substance misuse clients
- Demonstrable experience of delivering training or other group activities
- Knowledge and understanding of - Group work - Assessment care planning and key working - Care coordination - Issues affecting drug misusers - Solutions focused brief Therapy and/or motivation interviewing
- Experience and understanding of health and safety, including assessing high-risk situations for service users
- Demonstrable experience of working in the health, social care, criminal justice or other specialist setting delivering training or other group activities
- Experience of working with adults in a life skills, health & wellbeing environment
- Ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability of prioritise and work under pressure with competing demands
- Good communication skills
- Sound knowledge of IT packages

**ABOUT THE COMPANY**:
Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.

At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that’s staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that’s right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.

We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year.

We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.

**We Are With You.**

**BENEFITS**:
**What we offer **[included as standard]**
- Competitive salary
- 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
- Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
- Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
- Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
- We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**: This is a full-time position, predominantly working Monday - Friday (37.5 hours per week), however flexibility will be required to work unsociable hours. IND H


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