Team Leader

Are you a passionate and inspiring leader who wants to help people make positive changes in their lives?

 

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.   

 

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Team Leader to join our Halton service. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated team, oversee our thriving community café, champion volunteer and peer mentor development, and support people on their recovery journey.

 

As a Team Leader, you will provide visible leadership, promote a positive and inclusive culture, and ensure high-quality support and recovery-focused services are delivered across the service.

 

 

 

 

Reporting to the Service Manager, you will lead and support a diverse team of staff and volunteers, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred services.

 

A key element of this role is the oversight of our well-established Kitchen Table Community Café in Widnes. You will line manage the Café Lead, support volunteer recruitment and development, and ensure the café remains a welcoming hub for service users and the wider community.

 

You will also play a lead role in promoting recovery opportunities, community engagement and service user involvement.

• →Provide operational leadership and line management to staff, volunteers and peer mentors.
• →Deliver supervision, appraisal, performance management and staff development.
• →Foster a positive, recovery-focused and service user-centred culture.
• →Oversee the Kitchen Table Community Café and support the Café Lead in its day-to-day operation.
• →Lead on the recruitment, coordination and development of volunteers and peer mentors.
• →Oversee delivery of CGL accredited Quality Licence Scheme (QLS) programmes .
• →Promote meaningful service user involvement and co-production.
• →Support individuals in recovery to access volunteering, training, education and employment opportunities.
• →Coordinate recovery-focused activities and events, including Recovery Month and Volunteer Week.
• →Monitor service quality, performance and outcomes, driving continuous improvement.
• →Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partner agencies.
• →Ensure effective safeguarding, risk management, health and safety, and governance processes are maintained.

 

 

• Experience of working with Adults experiencing difficulties around substance use and multiple complexities.
• Excellent knowledge of drugs and alcohol and their effects.
• Line management experience
• The ability to lead, empower and motivate a team.
• Excellent knowledge of safeguarding policies and practices and experience of embedding these operationally.
• The ability to foster new partnerships and to maintain positive relationships with partner agencies.
• Knowledge of a range of psychosocial and evidence-based interventions around substance misuse.
• Knowledge and experience of community-based support/outreach practices.
• Ability to ensure all record keeping, outcome monitoring and data collection is maintained effectively.
• Communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing.
• Respond flexibly to the demands of the post.
• The ability to keep calm under pressure.
• Show commitment to facilitating positive outcomes for Adults.

 

 

• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 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 incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc. 
• A friendly and supportive team 
• Training, career development & progression opportunities 
• Refer a friend scheme.

 

 

A note about using AI in your application

 

We want to understand your experiences, achievements and strengths, so please make sure your application reflects your own story and clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria and the impact you've made in previous roles.

  

  

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

CGL points 31 to 33 (£36,101.10 - £38,114.53)

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

16/9/2026

31/8/2026

Charlotte Roberts | Charlotte.Roberts@cgl.org.uk | 07816166137

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.