Motiv8 Employability Keyworker

**Fixed term contract until 9th April 2025**

**Full time, 37 hours per week**

Stockport Homes are currently recruiting for a Motiv8 Employability Key Worker. Motiv8 is a programme that supports those furthest from the labour market. Funded by the DWP since 2023, it provides personalised support to help people with complex needs move towards employment. It is led by Jigsaw Support and delivered in partnership with Skylight, Starts with you, Wythenshawe Community Housing Group, ForHousing, and Shelter.

As an Employability Keyworker, you will provide and co-ordinate tailored support packages to improve people’s health and wellbeing, self-confidence, and esteem, to understand their strengths and aspirations and advance their journey towards - and into - training, job search and employment.

You will involve relevant agencies within the partnership and wider community, matched to the participant’s needs, through a unique and flexible delivery approach.

You will be working with people aged 18 and over who have multiple complex needs. Presenting barriers could include entrenched worklessness, combined with living in a jobless household, debt, mental health issues, homelessness, history of offending, disabilities and other health issues including drug and alcohol addiction.

You will offer 1 to 1 support for a minimum of six months removing barriers for people to move forward and support them move into a positive destination of training, job search or employment. Delivery will be across the ten local authorities in Greater Manchester., predominantly in Stockport.

**As a Motiv8 Employability Keyworker, you will be responsible for**:
Managing and monitoring a caseload of participants, and mobilising action plans and outcomes.

Proactively engaging participants and sustaining their engagement through regular face to face support, telephone, and videocalls.

Developing and delivering one-to-one and group support interventions.

Carrying out risk and need assessments with participants, developing personalised SMART action plans reflective of their needs.

Providing a flexible and holistic package of support to continually reassess participants support needs, and maintaining a flexible approach to delivery.

Developing relationships with key partners and stakeholders from statutory and non-statutory services, including JCP, employment and training providers, to develop an up-to-date knowledge of services and to secure successful opportunities and outcomes for participants.

Must adopt a target driven approach to contribute towards the key performance indicators of the programme, especially achievement of training, employment and job searching outcomes, through motivational and outcome-focussed conversations with clients.

Recording and maintaining accurate, detailed, and professional case notes and client records via the ECCO case management system in a timely manner.

Operating and complying with organisation and contract policies and procedures, and the organisation’s values at all times.

To be a proactive member of the team; continually seeking to improve and develop your own skills and the performance of the team.

Attend mandatory training when requested to ensure compliance with group policies and procedures.

Carrying out any other duty which may be, from time to time, requested commensurate with the position.

Working flexibly across the 10 localities of Greater Manchester including co-locating at offices across the partnership.

In addition to the contents of this job description, employees are expected to undertake any and all other reasonable and related tasks allocated by the funder or delivery partner in relation to the role.
- Strong case recording and management skills
- Experience of managing a personal caseload of participants, whilst being the single point of contact, mentor and coach.
- Ability to recognise and appropriately act upon safeguarding concerns
- Ability to use a range of IT systems and experience of using case management systems
- Proven experience of working with people in a support, advice, employability, or housing setting
- Experience of providing one to one support to participants
- A working knowledge of careers advice and benefits to support customers
- The ability to build positive relationships with service users, as well as the ability to work with autonomy and working as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills
- A flexible approach to work from a number of locations across Greater Manchester

This post will be on SKylight terms and conditions.

**Closing date: 21st April 2024**

**Interview date: 29th April 2024**

SKylight is a Community benefit society established in 2018 and was set up as the charitable arm of Stockport Homes Group. As a Community benefit society, SKylight was set up for the benefit of the community with a social objective.

SKylight works closely with the people of Stockport to help transform lives in local communities including furniture