Key Worker - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Growth Company

The Growth Company

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
Manchester

Company
The Growth Company

Contract type
Fixed term/ Full
- time

Salary
Up to £25,000 per annum

Closing Date
01/06/2023

Ref No
3522

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.

The Growth Company (GC) has an exciting new opportunity for a Key Worker who will actively support Ukrainian refugees as part of our United for Ukraine initiative, helping the participant to progress within the working environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Must be able to speak fluent English and Ukrainian.
Named single point of contact for coordinating and sequencing services on behalf of their individual participants.
Working with participants to progress them on their journey towards employment and overcoming their work, skills health and personal circumstances barriers to ultimately support participants into sustainable work.
Build strong and positive relationships with participants, enabling them to make well informed choices and appropriately diagnose their areas of support, leading to the joint development of an action plan of support intervention.
Responsible for making the right connections with local services, through a multiagency approach, to coordinate a focused package of support for each participant.
Promote the additional choices available to participants via the local Social Prescription Network, demonstrating individualised engagement and motivational skills appropriate for each participant.

About you:

Must be fluent in English and Ukrainian.
Ability to work in a target driven environment.
Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills.
A warm, approachable empathetic style and the ability to establish rapport
Excellent communication skills.

Skills Required:

Experience in the guidance, advice & counselling environments.
Knowledge in relation to the issues affecting individuals with multiple barriers to progressing to employment and sustained employment (desirable)
Knowledge in relation to the support agencies that can assist with individuals with complex needs (e.g. debt, substance misuse, housing etc) (Desirable)
Working with and placing individual customers in to suitable and sustained employment.

This is a fixed term contract until the 31st
December 2023
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.