Key Worker - Sheffield, United Kingdom - The Growth Company

The Growth Company

Verified Company

Sheffield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Company
The Growth Company

Contract type
Permanent/ Full
- time

Salary
Up to £27,000 per annum

Closing Date
17/09/2023

Ref No
3726

The Growth Company's Employment Yorkshire Personal Wellbeing team have an exciting opportunity for a Key Worker - Wellbeing who will deliver a range of guidance and training services for customers under the supervision of National Probation Service, contribute to individuals' sustained improvement in health & wellbeing.

progression into employment, training and education.

This role will be based in Sheffield but will also cover the South Yorkshire region.

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.

Key Responsibilities

Ensure service users receive a personalised Wellbeing offer that meets individual needs/levels of complexity
Manage a wide range of service users, by caseload, to achieve targets
Deliver Comprehensive Assessments, including screening for LDD
Identify, develop and maintain effective relationships with key local services to support service users, including signposting, case conferencing
Deliver support to service users via appropriate channels, including digital, group workshops and facetoface sessions
Produce highquality service user action plans
Plan, deliver and evaluate group sessions for service users
Ensure Wellbeing contract compliance
Take part in observations, assess own delivery, and act on feedback, including undertaking CPD

About you

Recent experience of delivering personal wellbeing progressions and outcomes, particularly I Criminal Justice setting
Experience of managing a caseload of service users, to support them with improving their wellbeing
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 targetdriven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes
Ability to deliver onetoone and group sessions
Able to use digital channels and platforms in service delivery
Ability to undertake supervision and observations desirable, although training provided
Strong interpersonal skills service user contact, team and partnership working
Hold Substance Misuse Awareness Level 3 and Counselling Skills for Health Professionals
ACEtrained and motivational Interviewing
Assetbased Community Development
Mental Health First Aid and Suicide Awareness/Prevention
Working with victims and perpetrators of Domestic Abuse
Expert knowledge of benefits system and use of ITEP/Node-Link mapping as behaviour change tool

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.