Children and Families Worker

4 months ago


Gateshead, United Kingdom Change Grow Live Full time

Overview:
**Join Our Team and Make a Difference**

At Change Grow Live, we're not just a charity; we're firm believers in the power of making a real impact in the lives of our Service Users.

Our commitment is to offer unwavering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each individual with personalised care. Our core values—'Be open, be compassionate, and be bold'—guide our dedicated team daily as we work toward helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

**Exciting Opportunity: Children and Families Worker**

Are you passionate about helping young people change their lives? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for a
**Children and Families Worker.** This isn't your usual drug and alcohol service; it's an innovative and forward-thinking project with a proven track record of effectively engaging young people, young adults, and their families. Our ethos is centered around the principles of harm reduction, providing non-judgmental, fact-based information and advice surrounding drug and alcohol use and the associated risks.

Come be a part of our wonderful Gateshead Positive Futures Young Person service We're a close-knit team led by a caring service manager, supported by compassionate staff, and an efficient administrator. Together, we're all about making a difference, bringing hope, and creating brighter futures for everyone.

We'd love to have you join us

**Hours**: 37.5hrs per week - This is a 12-month Fixed-term Contract.

**Salary**: £27,449.53 - £31,529.41 (dependent on experience)

**Responsibilities**:
**About the Role**:

- Engage children and young people in a range of interventions, utilising a family-centered approach, empowering them to reduce risk, increase resilience, and lead a safe, happy, and healthy life.
- Identify families in conjunction with other agencies that will benefit from the Think Family / Whole family approach, negotiating participation and engagement with the program of care.
- Manage a caseload of children and young people affected by parental substance misuse.
Ensure that appropriate safeguarding practice is followed at all times, working in partnership with statutory agencies where appropriate.
- Provide assessment, psychosocial interventions, integrated care planning, and aftercare support, including transfer of care.
- Provide service user advocacy to support engagement from and access to partnership services.
- Work with service users to support positive, holistic outcomes in relation to their health and wellbeing, enabling them to lead safe, healthy, and purposeful lives: reducing risk and increasing resilience.

**About You**:

- Experience of working with families with multiple risk factors.
- Experience in delivering 1:1 and group work, including evidenced-based interventions.
- Extensive experience in the substance misuse field.
- Experience in working in close partnership with key stakeholders.
- The ability to undertake comprehensive assessments, care-planning, case management, and reviews.
- Experience in delivering training to professionals.
- The ability and willingness to be empathetic, inclusive, and non-judgmental in your practice.

**What You'll Receive**:

- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays), rising by 1 day for each year in the first 5 years of service.
- 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 this sounds like you and you’re ready to embark on your journey with Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you.

Please read the attached Job Description and Role Specifics for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and Person Specification.



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