Substance Misuse Team Lead | Empower & Grow

Change Grow Live; Burnley; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days plus bank

Wellbeing hour

Pension scheme

Discounts and perks

Training and progression

Refer a friend scheme

Job summary

Change Grow Live in Accrington is seeking a Team Leader to lead a substance use service, ensuring a safe, client-centered approach with a strong emphasis on governance and staff development. You will supervise and develop a multidisciplinary team, foster partnerships with partner agencies, monitor performance, and implement improvements to deliver high-quality care for adults affected by substance misuse.

Role includes full-time hours (37.5/week) with a fixed-term contract to 31 March 2027; visa

Qualifications

• Experience of working with Adults experiencing difficulties around Substance misuse.
• Excellent knowledge of drugs and alcohol and their effects.
• Line management experience
• The ability to lead, empower and motivate a team.
• Excellent knowledge of safeguarding policies and practices and experience of embedding these operationally.
• The ability to foster new partnerships and to maintain positive relationships with partner agencies.
• Knowledge of a range of psychosocial and evidence-based interventions around substance misuse.
• Knowledge and experience of community-based support/outreach practices.
• Ability to ensure all record keeping, outcome monitoring and data collection is maintained effectively.
• Communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing.
• Respond flexibly to the demands of the post.
• The ability to keep calm under pressure.
• Show commitment to facilitating positive outcomes for Adults.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational line management to staff, including supervision with reflective practice, conduct appraisals and manage performance and sickness absence and ensure staff comply with organisational policies.
• Support staff to actively promote hope, empowerment, choice, and independence for service users. Encourage person-centred practices.
• Ensure organisational values underpin all decision-making and service delivery and foster a culture that reflects and promotes these values across the team.
• Monitor service quality using data analysis, engage staff in continuous improvement planning and develop team and individual performance plans where necessary.
• Work with the team to identify risks to service users, children, and families, ensure staff are competent in delivering interventions that reduce risk.
• Contribute to team meetings, promote a learning culture and ensure effective information sharing and feedback on service developments.
• Use the 'Spark' learning platform to identify training needs and encourage participation in training opportunities.
• Observe staff practice to support improvements in service user outcomes and provide timely feedback.
• Maintain robust governance and monitoring systems with the management team and ensure high-quality service delivery.
• Attend internal and external meetings with stakeholders.

Skills

Line management

Substance misuse knowledge

Safeguarding knowledge

Partnership development

Record keeping

Communication

Job description

Change Grow Live in Accrington is seeking a Team Leader to lead a substance use service, ensuring a safe, client-centered approach with a strong emphasis on governance and staff development. You will supervise and develop a multidisciplinary team, foster partnerships with partner agencies, monitor performance, and implement improvements to deliver high-quality care for adults affected by substance misuse.

Role includes full-time hours (37.5/week) with a fixed-term contract to 31 March 2027; visa