Key Worker with Special Interest

3 weeks ago


Salford, Salford, United Kingdom The Growth Company Full time

Location
Salford

Company
The Growth Company

Contract type
Permanent/ Full
- time

Salary
Up to £26,000 per annum

Closing Date
15/02/2023

Ref No
3391


An opportunity has arisen for a Key Worker with Special Interest to join our Employment team within The Growth Company, who will actively engage with individual participants with a learning disability and/or autism, ensuring that through the delivery of a multi-channel, multi-agency and multi-place service delivery model, the participant is enabled and empowered to successfully complete their personal journey into, and progression within the working environment.


Key Responsibilities - Core

  • Named single point of contact for coordinating and sequencing services on behalf of their individual participants
  • Working with participants to progress them on their journey towards employment and overcoming their work, skills, health and personal circumstances barriers to ultimately support participants into sustainable work
  • Responsible for making the right connections with local services, through a multiagency approach, (supported by the Partnership & integration Manager and any relevant Keyworkers with Special Interest) to coordinate a focused package of support for each participant
  • Able to support participants with appropriate prioritisation of solutions for personal circumstances, skills, health as well as employability
  • Promoting antidiscriminatory practice in ways which are consistent with professional and legislative frameworks and organisational policies
  • Will provide in work support to ensure employment outcomes are sustained and career development is encouraged

About You

  • Working with and placing individual customers in to suitable and sustained employment
  • Experience in the guidance, advice & counselling environments
  • Knowledge in relation to the issues affecting individuals with multiple barriers to progressing to employment and sustained employment
  • Knowledge in relation to the support agencies that can assist with individuals with complex needs (e.g. debt, substance misuse, housing etc)
  • A warm, approachable empathetic style and the ability to establish a rapport and build relationships with customers that support their progression to sustained employment

Skills Required:

  • Strong interpersonal, communication, influencing and negotiating skills
  • Experience of working with people with multiple and complex needs, including health conditions and disabilities
  • Proven experience of developing expert knowledge in a specialist area is desirable
  • Experience of working on outreach and lone working
  • Ability to work in a target driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of job outcomes and sustained outcomes
  • High level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver onetoone and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard


The Growth Company (GC) are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff to share this commitment.


If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

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.



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