Young Person's Resilience Worker

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. 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 be working within an all age, whole family substance use service across the county. Our approach is centered around a resilience and strengths-based model of support that incorporates some core principles around preventionand earlier intervention, harm reduction and person-centered support. 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 our with our key community partners and internal teams in providing the best response to the emerging and dynamic needs of young people.

Where Sheffield Contract Type 24 Month Fixed Term Contract Full Time Hours 37.5 per week Full Time Salary Range £27,861.26 - £32,002.35* 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.

About The Role 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 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.

Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed out line of responsibilities and Person Specifications 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. CGL points 23 to 28 (£27,861.26 - £32,002.35) N/A - Outside London Weighting Area 27/4/2026 15/4/2026 Niall Morton | niall.morton@cgl.org.uk | 07423500541 This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.