Support Worker - Sheffield, United Kingdom - The Growth Company

The Growth Company

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Sheffield, United Kingdom

16 hours ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
Sheffield

Company
The Growth Company

Contract type
Permanent/ Full
- time

Salary
Up to £26,000 per annum

Closing Date
28/07/2023

Ref No
3654

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.

The Growth Company's (GC) Employment team - Justice Service are looking a Support Worker to work within the CFO (co-financing organisation) Activity Hub and on an outreach basis.

The Activity Hub builds its foundation from a community ethos which aims to support people on Probation (our participants) on a community order or licence to develop social capital through a range of interventions.

This will also include close working with the National Probation Service and partnerships.

You will provide one-to-one and group work support for hub participants to deliver a range of information, guidance and training which contribute to the participants' journey and progression into employment, training, education, and a life free from crime.

Key Responsibilities:

To engage with and case manage participants in the activity hub and to provide advocacy, mentoring, advice and guidance and training interventions that meet the needs of the individual.
Support the achievement of life skills and approaches to reduce reoffending.
Establish and deliver both group and onetoone activities as part of participant interventions, including initial assessments, action plans, and progress/risk reviews.
Engage with community, voluntary sector and mainstream training, education and employment support services to ensure that participants are given the support they need.
Contribute to making contact and establishing relationships with new participants and assist them to understand the benefits of engaging with the activity hubs.
Deliver services, both at the hub and other community and voluntary sector venues.
Network, market and promote the service to partner organisations and participants.
Update Management information systems accurately as required.
Carry out associated administration work as needed.

About You:

Knowledge regarding the issues affecting the rehabilitation of individuals with criminal convictions, and desistance theory.
Knowledge of National Probation Services and/or HM Prison environments and/or training, education, and employment opportunities locally and nationally (desirable).
A warm, approachable empathetic style and the ability to establish a rapport.
A positive and cando attitude.

Skills Required:

Experience working with individuals and supporting people to achieve their goals.
Information Advice and Guidance and/or teaching qualifications, (or equivalent) is desirable.
Experience of working with individuals with criminal convictions, or those disaffected and marginalised from mainstream services, in training, guidance, advice and counselling environments is desirable.
Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.
Ability to work in a targetdriven environment.
Tutoring and facilitating.
Tutoring and/or Teaching qualifications would be desirable.

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.