CGL (Change, Grow, Live) Careers and Employment

Stop deskilling workers with endless pathways and flowcharts and let people use their skill, initiative and experience! Also training is awful compared to how it used to be a few years ago. Lots of trainers with very little experience in the job or of training!

make sure yu have read the job description properly and answer the questions with examples where applicable

Awful. Constant cuts to funding, staff leave and are not replaced, constant failings which put our service users in harms way. No management at all. Scrape by every day trying to run a service with caseloads of 90, constantly hounded by managers wanting more and more from us every day. Soul destroying. 90% of the staff have been off on extended sick leave at some point and I can’t wait to get out of this awful organisation.

make sure yu have read the job description properly and answer the questions with examples where applicable

It depends on the position you are going for but they will ask questions around confidentiality, questions around scenarios and what would you do, questions around what you have done in the past.

Just be relaxed and be yourself when evidencing your practice.

You apply online through the company website and send your application to a staff email. The interview will consist of two staff members who interview you and ask about 5-6 questions. Then they get you to do a test based on your role, nothing difficult. Recently they have made all applicants do the VBI questionnaire now. There is no way to prepare for the VBI. The problem with it is you can pass the interview but fail the VBI.

Robust and challenging. But also fair.

It will be different in every service- I’ve been offered a job the afternoon of the interview and waited weeks to be told on other occasions

Awful. Constant cuts to funding, staff leave and are not replaced, constant failings which put our service users in harms way. No management at all. Scrape by every day trying to run a service with caseloads of 90, constantly hounded by managers wanting more and more from us every day. Soul destroying. 90% of the staff have been off on extended sick leave at some point and I can’t wait to get out of this awful organisation.

Different in every service and depends on work place culture and staff. Some services will be firefighting with crazily high caseloads and lots of sick leave while others will be relaxed and laid back

To get a step on the ladder of substance misuse work with a decent wage and benefits. Make the most of the training and opportunities to fill out your CV!