Change Grow Live
Team Leader
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Overview
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 service 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 a new and exciting opportunity for a Team Leader to join our HMP Wandsworth 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.
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 focussed culture, engaging staff to provide an innovative and continually improving service and provide leadership, support, and development to a wide range of staff.
Where
HMP Wandsworth, Heathfield Road, London, SW18 3HU
Full Time Hours
37.5 per week
Contract
Permanent
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.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PRISON BASED ROLE AND REQUIRES PRISON CLEARANCE
Responsibilities
About the role
- Operational line management of a substance use pathway which includes staff 1-1s, appraisal, performance and sickness management as well as ensuring staff follow CGL and external policies applicable to their roles.
- 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.
- Support staff to improve service user outcomes through observed practice, providing timely values-based feedback.
- Support frontline staff with client interventions.
- Work closely with the clinical and prison teams to ensure safe and effective pathways.
- Lead on operational delivery of interventions, ensuring the team adheres to evidence-based practices, harm reduction strategies, and trauma-informed approaches.
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About you
- Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience.
- Knowledge and experience of developing and leading health and social care services and delivering services which evidence high performance and quality standards.
- 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)
What we will give to you
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”.
- Paid ‘Wellbeing hour' each week
- 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
- Generous Refer-a-Friend scheme
Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.
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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.
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.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time)
CGL points 31 to 33 (£36,101.10 - £38,114.53)
ILW / OLW /Fringe
Inner London Weighting (£4,236.47)
Closing Date
25/10/2026
If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:
Hannah Condon | hannah.condon2@cgl.org.uk
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
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