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.
Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
RISE (a consortium, led by Change Grow Live, and includes Central and North West London NHS Mental Health Trust, and service user-led organisation Build on Belief) is the integrated end-to-end treatment and recovery service which offers a wide range of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions to Ealing residents 18 years and over.
A new RISE Primary Care Assessment Team (PCAT) has been formed to navigate Ealing resident GP patients who are not currently accessing Structured Treatment but with concerns around alcohol &/or illicit drug use into RISE and provide psycho-social interventions within the primary care setting.
We therefore have an exciting opportunity for an Engagement Worker who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs.
Where: Ealing
Salary: £19.56 per Hour
Contract Type: Sessional
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Responsibilities
The post holder will:
Work with service users to identify personalised management plans and activities to support reducing substance use behaviours.Support and act as a service user advocate and connect them with other services to help them manage their dependenciesProvide crisis intervention, offer emotional, practical and psychosocial support by practicing active listening, motivational interviewing techniques and solution-focused approaches to work through individual needsSupport services users to develop social skills and work on behaviour management to maximise social inclusion and help them integrate more in their community and to engage with relevant statutory services.
About you:
Have an interest in working within in a drug and alcohol setting. Experience of having worked with vulnerable people in either mental health or drug and alcohol servicesAwareness of the multi-systemic issues experienced by people affected directly and indirectly by substance and alcohol useDemonstrate a high level of verbal/written communicationAble to develop and maintain the therapeutic alliance
CGL are committed to creating an inclusive environment, which celebrates difference and allows our staff and service users to flourish. We recruit the very best staff from a wide range of backgrounds, ensuring service users’ benefit from our diverse skills and expertise. We always work to the principles of fairness and equality of opportunity in all our recruitment processes.
All applications for this post will be subject to enhanced DBS clearance
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.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time) £19.56/Hr. ILW / OLW /Fringe Inner London Weighting (£4,072.06) Closing Date 10/3/2025 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details: Philip Keightley | Philip.Keightley@cgl.org.uk | 07795391186 This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level. Options ApplyApplyShareEmail this job to a friendRefer <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> </span></p> Share this vacancy on your newsfeed
We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.
The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.
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