Young Person's Resilience Worker

Overview:

Do you want to work for a caring organisation that believes in people?

Do you want to make a difference to young people and their community?

At Change Grow Live, our commitment to making a difference in the lives of those who use our services is unwavering. We provide support, respect, and a safe environment, where we tailor our approach to each individual's needs to find the best treatment and support options.

Guided by our core values of being open, compassionate and bold, our team embodies these principles daily, striving to empower individuals to reshape their lives, foster personal growth, and embrace life to its fullest.

As a Young Persons Resilience Worker you will be an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team, within an under 18 substance use service across Sheffield. Our approach is centered around a resilience and strengths-based model of support that incorporates some core principles around prevention and earlier intervention, harm reduction and person-centered support.

You will engage young people in a range of interventions, utilizing strengths based and young person-centered approaches, empowering them to reduce risk, increase resilience and lead a safe, happy, and healthy life.

You will work in an integrated way and collaborate with our key community partners and internal teams in providing the best response to the emerging and dynamic needs of youngpeople.

Where: Sheffield- You will be co-located at the YJS Stadia office for minimum 2 days a week

Full Time Hours: 37.5 per week

Full Time Salary Range: £27, £32,002.35* (pro rata for part time hours)

• Please note: Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

Responsibilities:

About the role:

• Providing screening, assessment, psychosocial interventions, integrated care planning, post treatment support, including transfer of care.
• Identifying and responding effectively to potential safeguarding issues.
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community.
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement.
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services.
• Targeted and Specialist 1-2-1 work

• Act as the service Youth Justice Lead. This will include:

• Providing consultation and support to Youth Justice staff and linked agencies e.g. Remedi, Probation

• Building, strengthening and maintaining links with criminal justice services in the city to improve pathways and increase referrals

About you:

• Experience of working with young people and knowledge of the issues they face
• Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to children and young people and the Fraser Competence framework
• Have an excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working
• within a related field
• Knowledge of working with evidence-based practice around young people's substance misuse treatment services and methods, including relevant best practice guidance
• An accomplished communicator, both verbal and written with a high degree of personal IT competency
• Be able to accurately update and maintain records and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g., reports
• Have excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative
• approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives

What we will give to you:

• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years' service "Capped at 30 days"
• 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 ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 23 to 28 (£27, £32, ILW / OLW /Fringe: N/A - Outside London Weighting Area Interview Date: 19/1/2026 Closing Date: 14/1/2026 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:: Niall Morton | | : This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.