Community Links Caseworker - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Headway Gloucestershire

Headway Gloucestershire
Headway Gloucestershire
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Gloucester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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**INFORMATION ABOUT HEADWAY GLOUCESTERSHIRE:
- **Headway Gloucestershire was established in 1988 and since then has been working to make a positive difference to the lives of adult survivors of brain injury. We provide specialist recovery support and respite through our centre-based Enablement Service and outreach support through our Community Links service.

Headway Gloucestershire is a busy, growing charity providing services to brain injury survivors and their families and carers. Every year we are challenged to raise funds to help deliver our services.


Our centre-based Enablement Service is the heart of Headway Gloucestershire.
Open every weekday, we offer activities that focus on the five elements of rehabilitation:
emotional functioning; cognitive functioning; learning; social interaction and behaviour.

Our Community Links Service offers outreach advice and support for adult survivors of acquired brain injury in Gloucestershire and is often the first point of contact.

During the pandemic we evolved our services to include the provision of remote support.

This means that we can be agile and adjust how we can best support our community and keep them safe.


Community Links Caseworker (Salary FTE £24,781 - £28,500)**You will work with a highly motivated staff and volunteer team to deliver a quality outreach advice and support service for adult survivors of acquired brain injury in Gloucestershire.

Under the direction of the Manager of Headway Gloucestershire, you will work alongside clients with complex needs to support their recovery, wellbeing, independence and autonomy, working towards agreed goals and recording key outputs and outcomes


This might include:

  • 1. Providing brain injury recovery information and advice, working with compensatory strategies and making referrals to clinicians and health providers.
  • Maintaining tenancies by assisting with paperwork, organising payment plans, negotiating with landlords or mortgage providers.
  • Supporting survivors to access resources in their local community including leisure, education, volunteering and employment opportunities.
  • Supporting survivors to attend appointments and meetings when relevant.
  • Working with other informal and formal support providers.
**Full training provided.
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