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Key Worker with Special Interest (In work Support)
| Posting date: | 20 March 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 March 2025 |
| Location: | M15JW |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | The Growth Company |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 4536 |
Summary
The Growth Company’s (GC) IPES team have an exciting vacancy for a Key Worker with Special Interest (In work Support) who will actively engage with individual participants, ensuring that through the delivery of a multi-channel, multi-agency and multi-place service delivery model, the participant is enabled and empowered to successfully complete their personal journey and progression within the working environment.
We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment. Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.
This part-time, fixed-term role (22.50 hours/week) requires working across the Northwest. Candidates must have a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle. The contract ends on 30th June 2025, with a potential extension of 1 month.
Key responsibilities:
Coordinate and sequence services for individual participants.
Support participants in overcoming barriers to employment, skills, health, and personal circumstances.
Develop strong relationships with participants to create action plans for supportive intervention.
Utilise digital, video, and telephony platforms for flexible participant engagement.
Coordinate support packages through a multi-agency approach with local services.
Work from local hubs and pop-up offices to increase service accessibility.
Collaborate with JCP and promote choices via the Social Prescription Network.
Provide specialist advice, develop single points of contact with partner agencies, and generate relevant content for participants and staff.
About you:
Work closely with individual customers to support them while in work and reach job sustainment – this may include identifying new/alternative job opportunities.
Utilise your experience in guidance, advice, and counselling to provide comprehensive support.
Apply your knowledge of issues affecting individuals with multiple barriers to employment and help them overcome these challenges.
Leverage your understanding of support agencies that assist individuals with complex needs (e.g., debt, substance misuse, housing) to provide holistic support.
Identify and facilitate employment and work placement opportunities for our customers.
Bring your warm, empathetic style to establish rapport and build strong relationships with customers, aiding their progression to sustained employment.
Ability to understand, demonstrate and apply GC values. Make a positive difference, stronger together, empower people, do the right thing, build on success.
Skills Required:
Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiating abilities.
Proven ability to thrive in a target-driven environment, focusing on achieving job outcomes and sustained results.
Skilled in delivering one-to-one and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard.
Adept at working with individuals with multiple and complex needs, including health conditions and disabilities.
Proven experience in developing expert knowledge in a specialist area (desirable).
Experienced in outreach and lone working.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
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.
We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment. Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.
This part-time, fixed-term role (22.50 hours/week) requires working across the Northwest. Candidates must have a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle. The contract ends on 30th June 2025, with a potential extension of 1 month.
Key responsibilities:
Coordinate and sequence services for individual participants.
Support participants in overcoming barriers to employment, skills, health, and personal circumstances.
Develop strong relationships with participants to create action plans for supportive intervention.
Utilise digital, video, and telephony platforms for flexible participant engagement.
Coordinate support packages through a multi-agency approach with local services.
Work from local hubs and pop-up offices to increase service accessibility.
Collaborate with JCP and promote choices via the Social Prescription Network.
Provide specialist advice, develop single points of contact with partner agencies, and generate relevant content for participants and staff.
About you:
Work closely with individual customers to support them while in work and reach job sustainment – this may include identifying new/alternative job opportunities.
Utilise your experience in guidance, advice, and counselling to provide comprehensive support.
Apply your knowledge of issues affecting individuals with multiple barriers to employment and help them overcome these challenges.
Leverage your understanding of support agencies that assist individuals with complex needs (e.g., debt, substance misuse, housing) to provide holistic support.
Identify and facilitate employment and work placement opportunities for our customers.
Bring your warm, empathetic style to establish rapport and build strong relationships with customers, aiding their progression to sustained employment.
Ability to understand, demonstrate and apply GC values. Make a positive difference, stronger together, empower people, do the right thing, build on success.
Skills Required:
Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiating abilities.
Proven ability to thrive in a target-driven environment, focusing on achieving job outcomes and sustained results.
Skilled in delivering one-to-one and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard.
Adept at working with individuals with multiple and complex needs, including health conditions and disabilities.
Proven experience in developing expert knowledge in a specialist area (desirable).
Experienced in outreach and lone working.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
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.