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Lead Key Worker with Specialism
| Posting date: | 30 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £25,123 to £33,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 October 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, Merseyside |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | The Growth Company |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4326 |
Summary
The Growth Company’s Employment MOJ Personal Wellbeing team is excited to offer a fantastic new opportunity for a Lead Key Worker with Specialism. In this role, you will support individuals in making sustained lifestyle changes that enhance their health and wellbeing.
As a Lead Key Worker, you will also assist the Service Manager with day-to-day delivery arrangements, coordinating staffing and resources to ensure effective service delivery.
We are committed to making a lasting difference in the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond. Our dedicated advisers and key workers support a diverse range of individuals, including those who have recently been released from custody, experienced relationship breakdowns, faced family issues, dealt with social isolation, or struggled with mental health challenges.
Key Responsibilities
Provide subject matter expert support to the team in their service specialism (Family Support).
Support Wellbeing Service Manager to coordinate the deployment of staff to ensure service users can access services, supported by strong partnerships.
Ensure service users receive a personalised Wellbeing offer that meets individual needs/level of complexity.
Report any concerns relating to safeguarding of service users.
Support Keyworkers with caseload management.
Abide by and ensure high levels of data security.
Support Keyworkers with Risk issues including High-Risk caseload assessment.
Ensure observations are completed within the required timescales.
Support Wellbeing Service Manager in communications to National Probation Service Probation Practitioners.
About you
Recent experience of delivering personal wellbeing progressions and outcomes, particularly in a Criminal Justice setting.
Experience of managing a caseload of service users, to support them with improving their wellbeing.
Developing strength-based action plans.
Detailed knowledge of the local health and wellbeing support landscape (statutory and community).
Understanding of the quality issues relating to delivery in Justice setting.
Skills Required
Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes.
Able to deliver one-to-one and group sessions.
Ability to use digital channels and platforms in service delivery.
Strong interpersonal skills - service user contact, team and partnership working.
Understanding of Substance Misuse issues.
Motivational Interviewing.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.
If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.
As a Lead Key Worker, you will also assist the Service Manager with day-to-day delivery arrangements, coordinating staffing and resources to ensure effective service delivery.
We are committed to making a lasting difference in the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond. Our dedicated advisers and key workers support a diverse range of individuals, including those who have recently been released from custody, experienced relationship breakdowns, faced family issues, dealt with social isolation, or struggled with mental health challenges.
Key Responsibilities
Provide subject matter expert support to the team in their service specialism (Family Support).
Support Wellbeing Service Manager to coordinate the deployment of staff to ensure service users can access services, supported by strong partnerships.
Ensure service users receive a personalised Wellbeing offer that meets individual needs/level of complexity.
Report any concerns relating to safeguarding of service users.
Support Keyworkers with caseload management.
Abide by and ensure high levels of data security.
Support Keyworkers with Risk issues including High-Risk caseload assessment.
Ensure observations are completed within the required timescales.
Support Wellbeing Service Manager in communications to National Probation Service Probation Practitioners.
About you
Recent experience of delivering personal wellbeing progressions and outcomes, particularly in a Criminal Justice setting.
Experience of managing a caseload of service users, to support them with improving their wellbeing.
Developing strength-based action plans.
Detailed knowledge of the local health and wellbeing support landscape (statutory and community).
Understanding of the quality issues relating to delivery in Justice setting.
Skills Required
Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes.
Able to deliver one-to-one and group sessions.
Ability to use digital channels and platforms in service delivery.
Strong interpersonal skills - service user contact, team and partnership working.
Understanding of Substance Misuse issues.
Motivational Interviewing.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.
If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.