Assertive Inreach Worker
| Posting date: | 14 July 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 August 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5711 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker, up to 2 days a week in the office
Salary: £27,717 - £30,066 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Friday 25th July 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assertive Inreach worker to work within our Assertive Inreach Service.
This post is Grade 8, full-time and permanent.
About The Role
Assertive Inreach assists hospital patients with mental health difficulties in maintaining their finances during an inpatient stay, linking them to community resources and ensuring they are ready for discharge. They also assist in applying for benefits and resolving benefit or debt-related problems, connecting them with neighbourhood services, education/work, and volunteering to promote independence prior to discharge.
You will be required to visit inpatients at Bradgate Hospital and other wards linked to the hospital around the county.
Assertive Inreach works with individuals who are residents in the City, County and Rutland. The service is working within the 3C’s approach.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- An ability to positively motivate and identify strengths in individuals.
- An ability to utilise community assets and neighbourhood services, which may include access to employment, voluntary opportunities, recreational/social pursuits, community activities and cultural or spiritual activities.
- An ability to seek information and advice on benefits,and support individuals to apply and be in receipt of benefits.
- An ability to manage a caseload and prioritise risk appropriately.
- A confident communicator, working closely with partner agencies, forging strong working relationships to enable collaborative working.
- An ability to identify potential safeguarding and risks, alert as necessary to protect.
- An ability to work effectively on your own as well as part of a team, work under pressure and remain calm in crisis.
We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to provide evidence when you demonstrate them during the interview process.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances while still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Chelbie Shepherd, Resourcing Co-ordinator
Telephone: 0116 305 5973
Email: chelbie.shepherd@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click ‘Apply Now’. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application, which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support
By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.
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