Psi Group Facilitator

Overview:
**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.

As **a PSI Worker** at **Change Grow Live, **your focus will be on developing and delivering group/pod work programmes. You will work with other programme facilitators and professionals within your project, to design and deliver groups/pods, using evidence based practice, covering the most appropriate issues to your service users.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has experience in a similar field looking to take the next step in their career.

**Where**:Lewisham

**When**:We’re looking to get the right people in to the team ASAP

**Hours**:37.5hrs per week

**Salary**: £27,449.53- £31,529.41 dependant on experience plus Inner London Weighting (£4,072.06)

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

- Provide core psychosocial interventions relevant to drug and alcohol recovery, including 1:1 key work, pod/ group based work, harm minimisation and brief interventions
- Participate in multi-disciplinary assessments, risk management and planning using whole person and trauma
- informed approaches
- Work in collaboration with prescribing and clinical colleagues to support the delivery of specialist interventions
- Support with onward referral to a range of treatment and community support agencies

**About you**:

- Experience of working with groups/ pods and managing group dynamics such as conflict and challenging behaviour
- Ability to identify the needs of groups
- Knowledge of CBT, REBT, drug and alcohol recovery work
- Experience of Motivational Interviewing and Psycho Social Interventions
- Experience of how to work with challenges associated with substance and alcohol use e.g., cravings and triggers.

**What we will give to you**:

- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service
- Flexible working arrangements
- 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

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