Criminal Justice Worker - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Anawim

Anawim

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Job Title:
Criminal Justice Recovery Service Caseworker

Location:
Anawim, Balsall Heath, Birmingham

- _Section S7(2) Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010 applies. _
- _This post is exempted from Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 _
- _Fixed term for two years _

Grade:
SCP 25-27

Salary:
£24,706 - £26,343 per annum

Hours:37 hours per week

Responsible to:
Early Interventions Manager

Background to the project
Anawim is an independent charity originally founded by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity.

The Trustees include representatives from Father Hudson's Society and Our Lady of Charity who worked with them to develop the work, their joint vision and ethos continue to inspire the project.

Anawim seeks to support women who are vulnerable due to poverty, homelessness, abuse, rape, addictions, and may be drawn into prostitution and/or offending as a consequence.

It recognises prostitution as exploitation of women.

All staff, whether working in a paid or voluntary capacity, are expected to respect and work to the core values of respecting others, valuing all, and belief in the possibility of a life lived to the full.

The Anawim centre provides therapeutic courses and activities to support a range of women to move on in their lives.

The women come from many backgrounds often with multiple & complex needs.

One of these needs is being far away from the employment market, often with multi-generational lived experience of reliance upon benefits or suffering from other barriers either cultural or from having a criminal record.

Background to the post

Job Purpose:

Criminal Justice Recovery Caseworker JD August 2023

As a caseworker you will manage as caseload of up to 30 women and will offer holistic support to promote and encourage positive change.

This is your chance to have a meaningful career with a difference.

You'll be based at Anawim Birmingham Centre for women offering intense 1-2-1 support and facilitating groups - all to make interventions with women that will empower them to bring about positive change within their lives.

No two days are ever the same here, so you'll learn from each new situation that arises as you begin to build your career.

The role is in partnership with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust's Criminal Justice
Recovery Services, funded by NHS England. The Criminal Justice Recovery Service employ Practitioners based in court and custody suites who assess individuals with complex needs who have contact with the
Criminal Justice System. If needs are identified, the service provides a referral into on going support in order to divert from offending.

The female pathway at Anawim supports all women identified and provides early intervention to address health and social inequalities to reduce re-offending behaviours.

Outcomes:
for the women

To improve their ability to make positive choices, lead healthier lives, develop a stable and safe home environment and relationships and achieve economic stability through the provision of individual needs assessments and personalised support plans.
Reduce their substance misuse, improve their money management and avoid homelessness.
To be reunited with their children (where possible), taken off safeguarding plans, offered supervised contact.
To improve relationships with family and integrate better into the community.
Women helped to move from homelessness to suitably housed
Women assisted to understand how to hold down a tenancy successfully
Women moved from temporary accommodation to their own tenancies
Working with women to reduce their offending and support them through the criminal justice system
Multiagency working with external partners/ services

Key Tasks:

1 Work to develop the effective New Chance diversion scheme for women identified as being suitable for out of court disposals by West Midlands Police alongside the existing team.

2 Network with the police, custody sergeants & work in partnership with the wider New Chance service to build up referrals of women at risk of/or already in the criminal justice system, offering short interventions and support in order to prevent further offending and encourage access into support.

3 Work with up to 80 women to help them achieve positive outcomes during each year.

Undertake assertive outreach to then offer support in the community and draw them into all the activities and courses on offer at the centre.

Criminal Justice Recovery Caseworker JD August 2023

4 Offering this support will involve attending police stations, custody suites, court and accompanying to appointments. Sometimes in a very responsive immediate manner.

5 Attend police stations & Perry Barr custody suite on a regular basis, liaise with staff in order to promote the service and undertake assessment of potential clients at the pre-sentence or arrest stage.

6 Receive and engage with clinical supervision and case management support