Young Person's Resilience Worker

Every young person brings different experiences, strengths and ambitions.

 

As a Young Person’s Resilience Worker, you’ll create the space for them to be heard, understood and supported — helping young people affected by substance use reduce risk, build resilience and make positive choices for their future.

This is relationship-led work with real purpose.

You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary service built around early intervention, harm reduction and strengths-based, person-centred support. You’ll work alongside young people, not simply deliver a service to them.

You’ll build trusted, trauma-informed relationships with young people and provide support shaped around what matters to them.

That could mean completing an assessment and developing an individual care plan, delivering one-to-one or group interventions, exploring harm reduction, connecting someone with clinical support or helping them access education, training, housing or another community service.

You won’t always be working from the same place. Engagement could happen in homes, education settings, supported accommodation or other community spaces, as well as through digital channels. You’ll find ways to make support accessible rather than expecting young people to fit around traditional services.

You’ll also:

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  recognise and respond confidently to safeguarding and risk

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  work closely with education, health, housing, leaving-care and community partners

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  advocate for young people and help them navigate services

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  create opportunities for young people to influence and co-produce the support they receive

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  maintain clear, accurate case records and risk management plans.

Safeguarding is fundamental to this role. You’ll need a strong understanding of safeguarding practice and the confidence to recognise concerns, manage risk and take appropriate action.

 

AI can be a really helpful tool when putting together your application, and we're happy for you to use it. However, what we're most interested in is you.

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.

There's no need to write in a particular style. The strongest applications are those that are authentic, specific and clearly demonstrate your skills, experience and potential. We look forward to learning more about you.

 

We reserve the right to close this opportunity early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We are recruiting directly for this vacancy and will not be accepting agency applications or speculative candidate introductions.

 

Please note: This opportunity is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

 

CGL points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 - £32,802.41)

Inner London Weighting (£4,236.47)

23/8/2026

Amy Herbert | amy.herbert@cgl.org.uk

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