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Keyworker - Wolverhampton, United Kingdom - St Giles Trust

St Giles Trust

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Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Reference:

KEY241
Salary:

- £25,000 per annum
Contract Type:

Fixed Term/Full Time
Contract Length:
Fixed until 27th June 2025
Working Hours:
35 Hours Per Week
Location:
Wolverhampton
Job Summary:

Are you a proactive, compassionate and collaborative individual with a proven record of engaging positively with young people, families, offenders, or other vulnerable groups? Do you have strong experience of providing support, advice and advocacy and the ability to assess clients' needs?

If so, join St Giles as a
Key Worker, where you will play an integral **part in the new specialist multi-agency and multi-disciplinary Young Persons Team in Wolverhampton, providing a high-level service to vulnerable or at-risk young people and their families across the different levels of need and support, from early help to children and young people in care.

About St Giles Trust
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.

Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About this key role

We will count on you to build positive relationships and promote the value of lifestyle changes to the client group and their families and to ensure that the voice of the child and young person remains central to their support and that they are proactively encouraged to build and contribute to their own programmes.

You will contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments of children and families in need of support and provide both proactive planned programmes of support and an intensive service which will include interventions to support emotional wellbeing and health and substance misuse; creative arts activities; support responding risks of criminal, gang and/or sexual exploitation; mentoring; and sports activities.

Maintaining accurate records of support and interventions is also a key duty.

What we are looking for

Experience of engaging successfully with challenging people
Experience in negotiating with partner agencies to establish links to further the aims of the project
Experience of working to targets and recording information for performance monitoring
An understanding of the client group and the challenges and motivations of young people
Sound knowledge of using monitoring systems to record all aspects of the project
Able to recognise the signs of child sexual exploitation (CSE) and take appropriate action
Ability to set up and operate systems to monitor and report on work
Excellent IT, interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written.

As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients and successful applicants will require an Enhanced Child and Adult with Child Barred DBS Check.

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.

- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

To apply, please visit our website via the 'Apply' button.

Closing date: 02/06/2024, 11:00pm
Interview date:10/06/2024