Outreach Worker

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.

**Where**:Based in Huddersfield, to work acros Kirklees

**Hours**:37.5 per week

**Salary**: £27,449.53 - £31,529.41

**Contract Type**: Permanent.

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

- Deliver targeted outreach, engaging with clients that may face barriers to treatment
- Deliver psychosocial interventions as part of the Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service within the community of Kirklees
- Work in partnership with other partnership agencies as part of an integrated service.
- Engage with communities and partner agencies to raise the profile of the service at events across Kirklees
- Proactively follow up with service users that miss appointments to increase opportunity of engagement.
- Contribute to risk management processes.
- Work with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination.

**About you**:

- Have a strong understanding of complex substance misuse and have experience of working within a similar field.
- Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
- Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills.
- Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders.
- Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users.
- Work flexibly and be prepared to work some evenings and weekend where necessary
- Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others.

**What we will give to you**:

- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each 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

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.