Life Skills Worker

Our team in Penzance, Cornwall, are recruiting for an experienced Life Skills Worker to join them in providing guidance to a diverse service user group. You will be responsible for promoting life skills to our service users to encourage a positive exit from the service. If you are passionate about changing people’s lives for the better, we’d love to hear from you.

You will be a compassionate and motivated individual with the ability to connect quickly with the people we support and external stakeholders. We are looking for someone who has demonstrable experience of working with substance misuse service users, as well as experience of delivering successful training or other group activities to clients and peers. You will be highly organised, with excellent communication skills and able to manage your time effectively.

Above all, we are looking for someone who is passionate about what we do, with a positive and engaging approach to our service users and staff.

A full job description and person specification is available on request.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Demonstrable experience of working with substance misuse service users
• Demonstrable experience of delivering training or other group activities
• Experience and understanding of health and safety, including assessing high-risk situations for service users
• Demonstrable experience of working in the health, social care, criminaljustice or other specialist setting delivering training or other group activities
• Ability to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders
• Ability of prioritise and work under pressure with competing demands
• Good communication skills
• Sound knowledge of IT packages

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.

At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that’s staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that’s right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.

We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year.

We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.

We Are With You.

BENEFITS

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
• Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
• Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
• Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
• We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please note that although this role is based in Penzance, there is the requirement to cover West Cornwall. This is a full-time position, predominantly working Monday - Friday (37.5 hours per week), however flexibility will be required to work unsociable hours. We may close this role earlier if sufficient applications are received.