SOS Specialist Assertive Outreach Worker - Leeds, United Kingdom - St Giles Trust

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Job Summary

Are you a proactive, compassionate and collaborative individual with a proven record of working and engaging positively with people who have a history of social exclusion, youth offending or other vulnerable groups? Do you have strong experience of providing support, advice and advocacy and the ability to assess client's needs?

If so, St Giles has an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to join us an Assertive Outreach Worker , where you will work as part of a high-quality and client-focused team that oversees a vital lived experience-led project that works across Bradford.

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
Our successful candidate will assess referred clients, with reference to St Giles Trust assessment practices, and produce support and risk management plans based on these assessments, promoting inter-agency collaboration in the assessment and planning process. You will be expected to deliver a holistic support service, working independently or with colleagues as the situation dictates, providing practical help such as social and housing support, education, training and employment options, benefits work and debt advice.

We will also rely on you to develop and maintain relationships with referral agencies, ensuring a steady flow of appropriate referrals onto the scheme, and with regional agencies, including police and social services. Closing cases efficiently and positively, identifying a survival plan for the client that will identify agencies that can be used for on-going support and agencies that can be used if serious problems develop in the future, is also an essential aspect of this role.

What we are looking for

• To have worked on an offender-led support project, had personal experience of the criminal justice system, served a prison sentence, or still be serving a prison sentence in a prison within reach of Bradford.

• Experience in negotiation with partner agencies to establish links to further aims of the project

• Experience of engaging successfully with people with challenging or complex needs

• To have a relevant qualification to a good standard, or be working towards one

• Sound knowledge of 'County Lines' and the Government's Prevent programme

• Knowledge of services for offenders and patterns of offending in Leeds borough/s

• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written
· A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.