Young Person\'s Resilience Worker - Vaping Practitioner

Change Grow Live is 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 person 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.

Our Young Person Resilience Workers play an integral role within Change Grow Live, engaging young people in a range of interventions, using a young person-centred approach, and empowering our young service users to reduce risk, increase resilience and lead safer, happy, and healthy lives. This is a unique chance to sculpt the creation of a brand-new role dedicated to supporting young people who use vapes. We’re looking for a passionate, forward-thinking individual to join our team and, with the guidance of our Team Leader, bring this role to life within a large organisation.

• Engage young people in a range of interventions, utilising a young person‑centred approach, empowering them to reduce risk, increase resilience and lead a safer, happy and healthy life.
• Support young service users from point of entry into the service and through their journey.
• Engage young people who are using vapes and provide them with advice, support and interventions to support their health and wellbeing needs.
• Provide screening, assessment, psychosocial interventions, integrated care planning, post‑treatment support, including transfer of care.
• Identify and respond effectively to potential safeguarding issues.
• Reduce vaping‑related harm to young service users.
• Support and provide advocacy for young people by participating in all relevant multi‑agency meetings, including Child Protection meetings, Complex Case Review panels and Team Around the Child meetings.

• Experience of working with young people.
• Knowledge of safeguarding concerns in relation to children and young people.
• Understanding of vapes and vaping issues and experience of working within a related field.
• Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency.
• Knowledge of evidence‑based practice around young people’s substance misuse treatment services and methods, including relevant best practice guidance.
• A commitment to multi‑agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for young people.
• Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives.

• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays), rising by 1 day for each year of service (capped at 30 days).
• Paid “Wellness” hour each week along with a “Wellness” hub and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Several benefits including discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• A friendly and supportive team.
• Training, career development & progression opportunities.

Where: London Borough of Ealing
Hours: Full‑time, 37.5 per week
Salary: £27,861.26 – £32,002.35 Pro‑Rata, depending on experience.
Allowance: £4,133.14 Inner London Weighting Pro‑Rata

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. Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy. 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. This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.