Children and Families Worker

7 months ago

Croydon, United Kingdom Change Grow Live Full time

Overview:
As a hidden harm lead worker you will engage children and young people in a range of empowering interventions intended to address the impact of a parent/ carers, significant others drug & alcohol use.

**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.

Our core values are

Are you passionate about helping young people change their lives? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a
**Children and Families Worker** at our Croydon Service. As a Children and Families Worker you will engage children and young people in a range of empowering interventions intended to address the impact of a parent/ carers, significant others drug & alcohol use.

We aim to give young people and young adults the knowledge and skills to make more informed choices, to keep themselves and their peers aware, safe, and well when it comes to drugs/alcohol.

**Where**: Croydon, London

**Hours**: 30 per week

**Salary**:£26,393.77 - £30,316.72 plus Outer London Weighting (£2,080.07)

**Responsibilities**:
**About the role**:

- To engage children and young people in a range of interventions, utilising a family centred approach, empowering them to reduce risk, increase resilience and lead a safe, happy and healthy life.
- Working with other agencies to aim at reducing risk and vulnerability, increasing resilience and promoting a young services user’s chances of leading a happy and healthy childhood, with a positive transition into early adulthood
- Identify families in conjunction with other agencies, who will benefit from the Think Family / Whole family approach, negotiating participation and engagement with the programme of care;
- Manage a caseload of children and young people effected 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 after care 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 who have multiple risk factors e.g., Parental mental health, parental substance misuse, domestic violence, anti-social behaviour, unemployed, poor / unsuitable housing, parental disability, parental learning disability
- Experience of delivering 1:1 and group work, including evidenced based interventions
- Background in the delivery of evidence-based children’s interventions, ideally with experience working in primary/ secondary education, children’s development, behavioural management, children’s mental health and wellbeing service, child counselling/ therapy, children’s social care, community youth services
- Extensive experience of working in the substance misuse field
- Experience of working in close partnership with key stakeholders including Children’s Services, schools, primary care and contributing to / chairing multi-agency meetings
- The ability to undertake comprehensive assessments, care-planning, case management and reviews
- Experience of delivering training to professionals
- The ability and willingness to be empathetic, inclusive and non-judgemental in your practice

**What we will give to you**:

- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each year in the first 5 years 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

**_
Please read attached Job Description and Role Specifics for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and Person Specification_**

If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with
**Change Grow Live,** then we’d love to talk to

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