GCA deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire

Role:

The Community Education Manager will manage a community based Alcohol Brief Intervention service in the wider community and primary care settings in Greater Glasgow in partnership with other statutory, voluntary and community agencies in the area.

In return for choosing to work for GCA, the benefits you will receive are:

• Very generous annual leave entitlement: full time employees start with an annual leave entitlement of 37 days (inclusive of 12 bank holidays) which increases to 38 days after 2 years, 40 days after 5 years and 42 days after 10 years length of service.
• 5 duvet days where employees may take time off at short notice.
• Death in service policy of 2 times salary.
• Cycle to work scheme where employees can save money on a new bike and spread the cost.
• Training and development commitment to help employees perform to the best of their abilities.

Organisation Profile:

GCA was founded in 1965 and is the oldest established Council on Alcohol in Scotland. GCA is a voluntary organisation working to reduce the harm caused by alcohol misuse through the provision of a range of high-quality advice, information, counselling, support, prevention and education and training services.

Overview

Change Grow Live Forth Valley have successfully been awarded funding from the Scottish Government Innovation Fund to support the recruitment and integration of Peer Harm Reduction Navigators into our established Forth Valley Harm Reduction team.

We are delighted to open recruitment for the first 4 Peer Harm Reduction Navigator posts who will bring additional capacity to our team. The posts are an opportunity for individuals with lived or living experience of alcohol or drug use to gain work experience and training and enhance their longer-term employability.

Responsibilities

The successful candidates will work within our established Harm Reduction team, providing assertive outreach to engage with more difficult to reach service users through offering harm reduction interventions, engagement, and support to access services. This service will be offered in a variety of locations across Forth Valley.

We offer extensive learning opportunities which may include access to SVQ.

The successful candidates will have a passion for recovery, an openness to a variety of approaches and interventions, a willingness to learn, good communication and literacy skills.

Change Grow Live 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.

We also expect an assertive approach to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults, and applicants to these posts will need to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to best safeguarding practice.

An opportunity has arisen within Change Grow Live Forth Valley for a Recovery Coordinator to join our team on a fixed term basis for 12 months. 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.

Responsibilities

About the role:

• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
• Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral
• 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
• 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
• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others.

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

Do you want to make a difference?

As a Recovery Coordinator with Change Grow Live you’ll work with people who use our services, helping them get to where they want to be.

With this role you’ll be working as part of the EMORSS team based within the community.

Responsibilities

The team supports offenders with their drug and/or alcohol issues.

No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.

You’ll have to record information about what you do, so enjoying a bit of paperwork and attention to detail is important. But most of the time you’ll be enjoying working with people from all backgrounds, making a difference to their lives.

This is what one of our people who use our service had to say:

“Life saving, life changing, [worker] took me from a place of crushing despair and mistrust of the system to a place of hope with the space to heal and rebuild. Thank you!”

"I’ve left custody/been in the community before with no help – is night and day. CGL have been amazing for me and my support. I would be back in jail without them. Gate pick-up was a game changer."

Our values are to be compassionate, open and bold. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

This post is subject to a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme check at an enhanced level.

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.