- Advertised from 13th May 2024
- Contracted Hours Per Week 37.50
Role
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.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Recovery Coordinator 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. With this role you’ll be working as part of the West Lothian Recovery Service.
The team supports people develop their Recovery after reaching a level of stability.
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.
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
- Research, design and prepare subject matter and materials for groups / pods.
- Deliver structured content within group settings to service users at various stages of recovery
- Engage with debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods have taken place, reviewing progress and identifying concerns with service users
- Tailor specific workshops around the needs of the service users, such as: anger management, sleep disorders, relationships, etc
About you:
- Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
- Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour.
- 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
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
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.
If you require sponsorship, please note that this role is not eligible for a Health and Care Worker visa. You may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route but must meet the minimum salary requirements for the role. You can find out more here Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (gov.uk)
If this sounds like you and you would like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we would love to talk to you.
Application notes
To find out more and apply please visit our website
Closing Date: 14/6/2024
Projects Worker
- Full time
- £22,930 – £25,306
- On site: Glasgow office, with travel and work at other locations
- Closing 17th January 2025
Street Connect is a Christian organisation with a mission to offer hope and opportunity of recovery for people disadvantaged by addiction, homelessness and poor mental health.
As a Projects Worker you can contribute to profound and lasting changes in the lives of highly vulnerable individuals. In 2023/24 working with our church partners, Street Connect benefitted over 2,166 people overall with 806 people receiving support through one-to-one appointments or groupwork, with 160 of those individuals receiving formal key work support, and we supported 16 entries to residential rehabilitation. Our participants report stability and improvements not only in their recovery from drug and alcohol problems, but also in their living skills and situations, social skills and relationships, and in their physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing.
The focal point of the role of Projects Worker will be in supporting church partners and volunteers. Our experience has shown us that working closely with partner churches to deliver support within communities is a successful way for people to access the support that they need. We currently have Street Connect partner churches and projects in Glasgow city centre, Royston, Clydebank, Paisley central, Paisley Kilnside, Greenock, Motherwell, Dunoon and Wishaw. As we continue our vital work in each of these areas our aim is to grow into new communities and allow as many people as possible to access the support they need.
In this role you will be part of the Street Connect team seeking to develop and deliver community recovery support through a range of different routes to both male and female service participants who have a background of complex needs such as addiction, homelessness, and mental health issues, who are now at different stages in their recovery journey. This will include both those in aftercare who are living independently and free from such issues and those at an earlier stage in their recovery.
Alcohol Counsellor
- Part time
- £26,002 – £28,891 pro-rata
- On site: Based within the GCA office in North Claremont Street, Glasgow
- Closing 14th February 2025
Flexible working, part-time hours, or job-sharing arrangements will be considered for the right candidate.
GCA deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire
Role:
To provide an alcohol counselling, advice and information service for individuals aged 16 and over with problematic alcohol use or affected by other people’s problematic alcohol use. The service will be provided from North Claremont Street Office and community settings.
There may be an opportunity to provide practice supervision to volunteer counsellors.
Key-holder responsibilities. The counsellor will have keys for the office and will open the premises on Saturday mornings.
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 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:
Glasgow Council on Alcohol (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.
Top job! Operations and Finance Manager
- Full time
- £40,000
- Hybrid: 32 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1PB (with some travel across Scotland) with the possibility of a maximum of 2 days weekly home-working
- Closing 20th January 2025
Crew is an award-winning national charity based in Edinburgh. We reduce harms and stigma associated with stimulant drug taking by providing a range of services for young people, their families, friends and communities. Crew acts from a public health perspective with the input of people with living and lived experience.
Our Mission:To reduce drug and sexual health related harms and stigma, improving mental and physical health without judgement.
Role Purpose:Supporting the CEO, volunteers and staff, ensuring the highest standards of service quality, effectiveness and efficiency and ensuring working at Crew offers opportunities for personal and professional growth. This includes Human Resources and recruitment management, overseeing management of resources, finance, our building, and the development, implementation and review of policies and systems.
Responsible to: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Prison Recovery Development Officer
- Full time
- £29,500
- On site: Glasgow with regular travel throughout Scotland
- Closing 14th January 2025
Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is looking for a pro-active, team player to join the team to work within our Prison and Healthcare project.
As an employee of the Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC), reporting to the Prison Recovery Development Lead. The successful post holder will have a unique opportunity to work within Scottish Prisons establishments developing and promoting peer lead recovery initiatives, creating a culture of recovery across the Scottish prison service by supporting the development of an operational approach to the “Recovery from Within” project, which works in collaboration with all stakeholders and promotes a person-centred approach to Recovery
The role involves facilitate groups delivering SRC’s “Recovery from Within” learning offerings to residents and staff across the prison service with a focus on developing community assets and supporting sustainable peer led Recovery development within prisons.
Your role will be to:
· Facilitate the delivery of SRC “Recovery from Within” learning offerings to residents, staff and partners developing greater awareness of the experience of addiction and recovery within key institutions
· Build relationships that will support the continuum of recovery for residents which compliments the core work and traditional approaches of prisons, substance use services, criminal justice and healthcare systems.
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