Key Worker
The Growth Company’s Employment MOJ Personal Wellbeing team have a fantastic new opportunity for a Key Worker – Wellbeing who will delivery of a range of guidance and support services for Participants under the supervision of National Probation Service. You will contribute to individuals’ sustained improvement in health & wellbeing, creating coping skills, putting strategies in place to manage poor mental wellbeing and creating better links with families, friends and communities.
Please note that this role will be working out of our Accrington, Burnley and Blackburn centres on a daily basis.
We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond. Our highly skilled keyworkers work with a range of individuals delivering group and 1 to 1 sessions to people looking to overcome complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health, relationship breakdown, social isolation and debt.
Key Responsibilities
1. Ensure service users receive a personalised Wellbeing offer that meets individual needs/levels of complexity.
2. Manage a wide range of service users, by caseload, to achieve targets.
3. Deliver Comprehensive Assessments, including screening for LDD.
4. Identify, develop and maintain effective relationships with key local services to support service users, including signposting, case conferencing.
5. Deliver support to service users via appropriate channels, including digital, group workshops and face-to-face sessions.
6. Produce high-quality service user action plans.
7. Plan, deliver and evaluate group sessions for service users.
8. Ensure Wellbeing contract compliance.
9. Take part in observations, assess own delivery, and act on feedback, including undertaking CPD.
About you
10. Recent experience of delivering personal wellbeing progressions and outcomes, particularly I Criminal Justice setting.
11. Experience of managing a caseload of service users, to support them with improving their wellbeing.
12. Developing strength-based action plans.
13. Detailed knowledge of the local health and wellbeing support landscape (statutory and community).
14. Strong IT skills which underpin consistent high quality recording.
15. Understanding of the quality issues relating to delivery in Justice setting.
16. Ability to understand, demonstrate and apply GC values: Make a positive difference, Stronger together, Empower people, Do the right thing, Build on success.
Skills Required
17. Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes.
18. Able to deliver one-to-one and group sessions.
19. Experience in using digital channels and platforms in service delivery.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
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.