Change Grow Live’s West Sussex Young Persons and Families Services (part of West Sussex Drug & Alcohol Wellbeing Network)
Our drug and alcohol support services are delivered across West Sussex (base for this post therefore tbc).
Please note that this role requires extensive travel across West Sussex
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.
We are looking to appoint a
Childrens and Young Persons Senior Therapist to support the ongoing development and delivery of an effective and comprehensive therapeutic service to children and young people (7-18) who are affected by or have witnessed parental drug or alcohol use.
Part Time Hours 30 hours a week
Full Time Salary Range £36,183.91 - £38,175.15
- Please note 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.
About the role
- Support the ongoing development and delivery of West Sussex Children and Young Person’s Therapeutic Service across West Sussex.
- Provide operational line management to a team of staff which includes 1 to 1 line management 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 new staff.
- Working with the leadership team, maintain strong governance and monitoring systems, ensuring a consistent, high-quality service and ensure professional standards are met and best practice implemented.
- To act as the operational designated safeguarding lead for the CYP Therapeutic service and to maintain a learning environment where staff feel empowered to explore safeguarding issues, review the assessment of risk and identify cases for August 2025 escalation with appropriate actions taken. Ensure that staff are competent in the delivery of interventions that reduce risk clients.
- Plan, chair and contribute to team meetings that promote learning cultures, cascade information, and provide feedback mechanisms for staff on service delivery/developments.
- Manage and have oversight of the referrals into the service and lead on the allocation and scheduling of new clients within the team.
About you
- Relevant professional qualification and significant experience in a related field, for example, Counselling and Art/Play Therapy.
- Attained or actively working towards BACP Accreditation OR equivalent level.
- Ability to gather and analyse information to enable evaluation of activity and inform service development.
- Experience of project management.
- Experience of writing reports to evidence working towards targets, to include key performance indicators (KPI’s), impact of interventions and outcomes of assessment and review processes.
- Experience of delivering therapeutic interventions to children and young people affected by parental alcohol and drug use.
- A good working knowledge of research and evidence relating to the impact of problematic drug and alcohol use on children.
- Experience of effective partnership working, relationship management, pathway and protocol development.
What we will give to you
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”.
- 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 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.
Closing date 8am on Monday 8th September 2025
CGL points 32 to 34 (£36,183.91 - £38,175.15)
N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
8/9/2025
Anja Rijavec |
[email protected]This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
