Job Description
Overview:
Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives. Our core values are
‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our teams apply these daily, 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
Team Leaders here at Change Grow Live play an integral role in ensuring an effective service provision for our service users by creating a focused culture, engaging staff to provide an innovative and continually improving service and provide leadership, support, and development to a wide range of staff.
We have a new and exciting opportunity for a
Criminal Justice
Team
Leader to join our Barking & Dagenham Service. As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will work flexibly and creatively to establish what is needed to have the most positive impact for all who are referred to our service.
Where: Barking & Dagenham
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary: £33,365.47 - £35,226.32
Responsibilities:
About the role:
As part of a multidisciplinary complex needs/ criminal justice team, you will work collaboratively with Criminal Justice partners including, Police / Probation / and our complex needs criminal justice team in the borough.- Provide a seamless link between police/court custody suites, prison, and the community.
- Provide information for courts and other criminal justice agencies of suitability for drug treatment interventions.
- To work with service users either on a voluntary basis or as part of a court, police, or probation requirement such as DRR, ATR/RAR.
- To deliver services across a range of bases, including Probation/court/police stations.
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users.
- To ensure the quality and consistency of service delivery across all locations within Barking and Dagenham to support the staff team to deliver a high quality recovery service to residents of Barking and Dagenham.
- Empowering staff to promote hope, empowerment, choices, control, and opportunities that assist service users reaching their full potential as individuals and community members.
- Work with your team and Designated Safeguarding Lead (if not your role) to ensure that the practices within the team/service enable identification of service users, children and families who are at risk. Ensure that staff are competent in the delivery of interventions that reduce risk to service users.
- Work effectively to engage with local partners to review, develop and evolve pathways, agreements and collaborative working to support those with complex needs in the Borough.
- Support staff to improve service user outcomes through observed practice, providing timely values-based feedback.
- The role will require Saturday working on a rotational basis with a day off in lieu
- Operational line management of a team of staff which includes supervision (with reflective practice), appraisal, performance and sickness management as well as ensuring staff follow CGL and external policies applicable to their roles
- Lead on the recruitment, selection and induction of staff
About you:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience
- Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field ideally within criminal justice.
- Knowledge and experience of developing and leading health and social care services and delivering services which evidence high performance and quality standards
- Significant experience of leading teams who work with families where children are subject to social care intervention
- Knowledge of current legislation surrounding children, young people, and safeguarding practice
- Able to lead, inspire and develop a team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to use common MS Office applications (Word/Excel/Outlook)
- Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards.
What we will give to you:
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service
- 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
Please read attached Job Description
and Role Specifics
for a more detailed outline of
responsibilities
and Person Specification
If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with
Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 31 to 33 (£33,365.47 - £35,226.32) ILW / OLW /Fringe: Outer London Weighting (£2,080.07) Closing Date: 9/6/2023 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:: chris.ayton | chris.ayton@cgl.org.uk | 07464494422 : This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.