Change Grow Live
Support Worker
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About Us
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.
Current Opportunity
We are currently recruiting a Support Worker to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, ensuring access to a wide variety of services and interventions throughout all stages of the service users' recovery journey. With this role, you’ll be working as part of the North West Edinburgh team, based at Craigroyston Health Centre.
Where: Craigroyston
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and all payments will be paid pro rata based on contracted hours.
About the Role
- Support the provision of the service’s key activities; assessment, implementation, monitoring, and review of recovery plans; structured psychosocial support, group work, peer-led interventions, and planned treatment exit.
- Deliver effective engagement and harm reduction interventions as required by service users presenting with a wide range of drug or alcohol issues.
- Support service users, under the guidance of recovery coordinators, to access the full range of provision within the recovery-orientated system of care, maximizing benefits and recovery capital towards sustained recovery and community re-integration.
- Co-deliver support activities and interventions alongside the multi-disciplinary team, external agencies, peers, and volunteers.
- Work with the recovery coordinator to build and develop the service user’s personal strengths, social networks, and recovery capital.
- Effectively and proactively signpost service users into a range of health and social care services that will support their recovery.
- Adhere to the implementation of all risk management procedures including child and adult protection protocols and guidelines, taking personal responsibility for keeping up to date on the requirements of these procedures.
- Fully inform service users about their recovery/treatment options, involve them in decisions and consent, and encourage them to take opportunities to achieve a sustained recovery.
- Form productive working relationships with external agencies and professionals, existing and new, to ensure service users have access to a wide range of recovery and community.
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About You
- Experience in providing a range of evidence-based treatment/support interventions within a Health and Social Care setting (through paid or voluntary work).
- Basic understanding and knowledge of the harmful effects associated with drugs and/or alcohol use in relation to health, social welfare, housing, employability, and personal relationships.
- Basic knowledge and understanding of interventions available to substance users.
- Basic knowledge and understanding of policies related to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and how these influence practice.
- An understanding of models of recovery and wider community service provision in supporting recovery.
- Understanding of principles of effective record keeping and administration processes.
- A good general standard of education to Standard Grade/GCSE level or equivalent including English. S/NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent level experience.
- Work effectively with colleagues and partnership agencies.
- Show a capacity to work on your own initiative and the ability to keep calm under pressure.
- Effectively time manage and prioritize tasks both independently and as part of a team.
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What We Offer
- 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays (6). Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 32 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 including discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- A friendly and supportive team.
- Training, career development & progression opportunities.
- Refer a Friend and receive vouchers if the candidate is successful.
Please read the attached Job Description for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and Person Specification.
How to Apply
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.
Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.
Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions. More information about eligible roles and occupations can be found here Skilled Worker visa Overview - GOV.UK.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.
CGL SPOT (20) (£26,296.03 - £26,296.03)
N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
Application Deadline: 10/7/2026
Closing Date for Applications: 13/7/2026
Contact Information:
Rebecca Rogers
rebecca.rogers@cgl.org.uk
07341429340
This post is subject to a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme check level 2 disclosure with PVG.
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