Assessment and Engagement Worker

2 weeks ago

Birkenhead, United Kingdom Change Grow Live Full time

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.

An exciting opportunity has opened for an **Engagement Worker** to join our Wirral Ways Recovery Service.

The role will be supporting people into treatment with a focus on people who use opiates and crack cocaine. offering rapid assessment / access to treatment and prescribing, the post may also carry a small caseload of people who are in service at the start of their recovery journey.

**Where**: Wirral Ways Recovery Service

**Hours**:37.5 per week

**Salary**:£27,449.53 - £31,529.41 per year

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

- Provide triage and comprehensive assessments for service users looking to access
treatment in both hub and spoke community venues.
- If required provide recovery orientated key working to a small caseload using a broad
range of person centred interventions.
- Engaging alcohol and illicit substance users from across the area into effective,
evidence based treatment programmes.
- To utilise a flexible approach and where required participate in activities and tasks
which directly respond to client and service need.
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
- Working 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 substance misuse issues and 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
- Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice
- 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
- 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 “Capped at 30 days”
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Several 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.

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