The Growth Company (GC) has a new vacancy for a Key Worker to support individuals to make sustained changes to their lifestyles which, in turn, improve their health & wellbeing.
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure service users receive a personalised Wellbeing offer that meets individual needs/levels of complexity
- Manage a wide range of service users, by caseload, to achieve targets
- Deliver Comprehensive Assessments, including screening for LDD
- Identify, develop and maintain effective relationships with key local services to support service users, including signposting, case conferencing
- Deliver support to service users via appropriate channels, including digital, group workshops and face-to-face sessions
- Produce high-quality service user action plans
- Plan, deliver and evaluate group sessions for service users
- Ensure Wellbeing contract compliance
- Take part in observations, assess own delivery, and act on feedback, including undertaking CPD
About You
- Developing strength-based action plans Detailed knowledge of the local health and wellbeing support landscape (statutory and community)
- Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes
- Ability to use digital channels and platforms in service delivery
- Strong interpersonal skills - service user contact, team and partnership working
Skills Required:
- Hold Substance Misuse Awareness Level 3
- Recent experience of delivering personal wellbeing progressions and outcomes, ideally in a Criminal Justice setting
- Experience of managing a caseload of service users, to support them with improving their wellbeing
- Counselling Skills for Health Professionals
- Suicide Awareness/Prevention
- Working with victims and perpetrators of Domestic Abuse
- Use of ITEP/Node-Link mapping as behaviour change tool
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.
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.