Overview
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.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Spectrum for you to join a dynamic team committed to supporting people with drug and/or alcohol issues on their recovery journey.
This role includes key working, running and planning our group work programmes, case management and interacting with partner agencies to ensure people accessing Spectrum can improve and change their lives. Don’t worry, there is a wide array of training and development opportunities to help support you in your work.
You will work with people with mental health issues, social & health care needs and substance misuse issues.
Where: Stevanage
Hours: 0
Contract Type: Sessional
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.
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
- motivational Interviewing
- Children’s & adult safeguarding
- Substance awareness
- 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
- Acupuncture
- Equality/ diversity and inclusion,
- First aid
About you:
- Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and/or 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
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.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time)
£18.46/Hr.
ILW / OLW /Fringe
N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
Interview Date
12/11/2026
Closing Date
9/11/2026
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
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