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Change Grow Live; Huddersfield; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Change Grow Live in Huddersfield is looking for a Young Person's Resilience Worker - Smoking Cessation to assess and engage with service users and support positive lifestyle changes.

The role involves promoting harm reduction, delivering health promotion interventions, and helping clients access mainstream services in the community. Fixed-term contract of 12 months, 37.5 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Assess and engage with service users.
• Develop positive lifestyle changes and health choices.
• Promote harm reduction and personalised health promotion interventions to encourage access to mainstream services.

Job description

Young Person's Resilience Worker - Smoking Cessation

Company:

Company: Change Grow Live

Salary: £28,557.79 to £32,802.41 a year, pro rata

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 Young Person Resilience Worker - Smoking Cessation in our Kirklees Team who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users. The post holder will ensure a high quality and consistent service to groups who traditionally and regularly find our services challenging to access; service users may have either drug and/or alcohol related issues and may have a co-morbidity or complexity of need. In fulfilling their duties, the post-holder will be expected to work with individuals to develop positive lifestyle changes and health choices. Promote harm reduction and personalised health promotion interventions to encourage people to access mainstream services within the community.

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.

Hours: Full time, 37.5 per week

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract of 12 months

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.