This is an exciting opportunity to join the Children 1st West Lothian Family Wellbeing Hub.

As a long-established team this busy and developing Service offers children, young people and their families across West Lothian a range of support, including; Family Group Decision Making, Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing and Kinship Care Support. You will underpin the support we offer to families and children in West Lothian.

As part of our busy and friendly team, you’ll bring excellent administrative, IT, property management and financial skills to enable our delivery of individual and group work as well as supporting the processes of recruiting and training volunteers. The administrator reports to the Service Manager.

If you are an experienced administrator with knowledge of Social Work, Community Work or a similar work environment and passionate about working with children and their families then we want to hear from you.

This is a fixed term, full time roll of 35 hours per week to cover a period of maternity leave until 30 September 2021.

Overview

Do you want to work for a caring organisation that believes in people?

Do you want to make a difference?

As a Recovery Coordinator with responsibility for Group Work at Change Grow Live you’ll work with people who use our services, helping them get to where they want to be.

Responsibilities

With this role you’ll be working as part of the recovery service team based in Bathgate, West Lothian

The team supports people with their or their loved ones’ drug and/or alcohol issues to find their way in recovery.

No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.

You’ll have to record information about what you do, so enjoying a bit of paperwork and attention to detail is important. But most of the time you’ll be enjoying working with people from all backgrounds, making a difference to their lives.

This is what a member of staff wrote about doing the post :

I loved the job. A tremendous feeling of job satisfaction when you see people come together, share personal experiences, hold each other accountable You cannot buy experience like that see people grow, and feel better about themselves from very low confidence to giving a presentation to the group.

I loved the concept of the psycho educational aspect of recovery, through work and fun to being heard and believed in.

I saw people start to believe in themselves and make positive changes in their life such as volunteering etc