Young Person's Resilience Worker

Job Summary:

As a Young Person’s Resilience Worker- Child Exploitation & Vulnerable People Lead, you’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering interventions that empower young people to reduce risk, build resilience, and lead safer, healthier lives.

You will engage young people in a range of interventions, utilising 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 key community partners and internal teams in providing the best response to the emerging and dynamic needs of young people.

• Supporting young people from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
• 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 young people and the wider community
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
• Working with young people 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
• Working flexibly across sites where required
• Targeted and Specialist 1-2-1 work
• Provide consultation and support to Amber Project, CSE and other exploitation services in the city.
• Build, strengthen and maintain links with exploitation services in the city to improve pathways and increase referrals
• Attend MACE and other relevant meetings to offer consultation and support to professionals.

About Change Grow Live:

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that making a difference to 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.

Skills/Experience Required:

• 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