Apprentice Group Work Facilitator

Your focus will be on delivering and developing group/pod work programmes, such as Foundations of Recovery. You will work with other programme facilitators and professionals within your project to design and deliver groups/pods, using evidence based practice, covering the most appropriate issues to your service users.

What you'll do

As a Group Work Facilitator Apprentice, you will be working towards the Adult Care Worker Level 2 apprenticeship over the duration of 15 months, alongside your daily roles and responsibilities.

To work within the learning environment at Change Grow Live (CGL) to gain experience in order to develop the skills and knowledge which will assist you to complete your qualification and progress in your career in the health and social care field in the future.

You will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at the service named above, to support delivery of high-quality provision by:

• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
• With training, provide screening, assessment, psychosocial interventions, recovery planning and onward referral
• Learn about and support reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
• Helping to promote carer, service user and community involvement
• Supporting advocacy for service users to be able to access partnership services
• Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination

In addition to the Recovery Worker JD and Programmes Facilitator Role Specifics, the post holder will:

• Deliver psychosocial interventions as part of the Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service within the prison estate
• Work in partnership with other healthcare providers as part of an Integrated Health and Wellbeing model
• Be required to work with key prison stakeholders enabling effective coordination of service user treatment
• To deliver group-based interventions as well as providing 1:1 support for hard to engage service users, specifically those not groupwork ready

-To be creative and innovative so that the post best meets the needs of the service user, promoting access into treatment, and encouraging engagement with underrepresented communities

• To provide a confidential, safe and secure learning environment for service users to include where possible a therapeutic environment
• Assess suitability for groups related to risk and special needs, working closely with prison partners to schedule attendance

The above is an outline of the post holder's duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change from time to time in order to meet the changing needs of CGL.

Change Grow Live offer some fantastic benefits which include:

• Help paying for childcare
• Cycle to work scheme
• Food intolerance and allergy testing
• Gym flex
• Life insurance
• Will Writing Service
• Employee assistance programme

We expect our Values to be at the heart of everything we do:

• Focus - we focus on the service user as the way to achieve positive change for the individual and community at large
• Empowerment - allows service users and employees to reach their full potential and achieve their ambitions
• Social justice - a shared commitment as individuals and as an organisation
• Respect - for each person we engage, without reservation or judgement
• Passion - being driven by innovation and determination - to bring about the safest, healthiest outcomes for individuals and communities
• Vocation - means our work is more than just a job

Please note that before employment can commence an enhanced DBS check will need to be carried out.

Training

Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship Level 2 including Functional Skills in maths and English.

After the apprenticeship

CGL is committed to providing its staff with opportunities for personal and professional development. We provide an internal training and development programme and aim to keep all our people up to date with new legislation and trends in social care work, with specialist training provided as required. Where appropriate, staff undertake external training courses in line with their development needs.

Skills

• Team Working
• Organisation Skills

Qualifications

• Desired: null, None required (grade None required)

Things to consider

The key dates provided should be used as a guide only, should the right candidate be found the position will close. Staff will need to work flexibly across operational sites as required and to work flexibly within an agreed number of hours to maintain the most appropriate level of service provision. This may involve evening and weekend working.

About the employer

CGL is a health and social care charity working with individuals, families and communities across England and Wales that are affected by drugs, alcohol, crime, homelessness, domestic abuse, and antisocial behaviour. Their projects, delivered in communities and prisons, encourage and empower people to regain control of their lives and motivate them to tackle their problems.

Apprenticeship details

• Course: Adult care worker (level 2), Care services
• Apprenticeship level: Intermediate (level 2)
• Training provider: LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
• Expected duration: 1 Year 3 Months
• Hours: 37.5 hours a week. Working week: 37.5 hours per week. Exact shifts to be confirmed including weekends and evenings.
• Start date: 15 November 2026
• Positions available: 1
• Wage: £16,438 a year