Targeted Interventions Coordinator- Children & Young Persons
About The Position
Change Grow Live is a charity dedicated to helping individuals change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. An opportunity has arisen to join their Children and Young People’s substance misuse team as a Targeted Interventions Co-ordinator. The role involves leading the coordination and delivery of early intervention and prevention activities to increase service visibility and accessibility into treatment. The post holder will promote the service's offers among partners and stakeholders, develop and maintain effective referral pathways, and build on existing partnerships to increase service interaction with organizations working with young people. A key focus will be on reaching vulnerable young people, including those with SEND and SEMH, by targeting specialist services, upskilling the workforce, and developing effective pathways. The role also includes transforming the social media presence to appeal to young people and finding innovative online engagement methods. This position is based in Peterborough and is a permanent contract for 37.5 hours per week.
Requirements
- 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
Responsibilities
- Lead on the coordination and delivery of the service’s universal, early intervention, prevention & education offers
- To increase visibility and accessibility of the service amongst children, young people, families, and partners with the aim of increasing referrals into service for specialist support.
- The coordination and delivery of group work, outreach, training and other programmes of work relevant to the role.
- To support the development of projects that increase visibility, create awareness, and improvement engagement including development of educational programmes, informative resources, and prevention pathways
- To devise and implement innovative methods to maximise engagement particularly amongst hard to reach or marginalised individuals/communities
- To develop and deliver group work and training programmes aimed at creating awareness of the service alongside delivering early intervention key messages
- To be responsible for proactively generating and increasing referrals from relevant partners including utilising data to target specific services/provisions
- Working flexibly across sites where required
- Ensure effective and consistent service user involvement including co-production.
- To support the coordination and development of the service’s social media activity.
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us.
- 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.
- Refer a friend scheme.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
