Criminal Justice Keyworker

The role is **only open to women**, in accordance with the sex-based exemptions of the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1support.

**Applicants will only be considered if you provide both a CV and Cover Letter**

Together Women is looking for an outstanding Key Worker to be part of our Criminal Justice team.

The Key Worker will engage with and provide intensive support to women across a range of areas, including: accommodation, finance, emotional wellbeing, family and significant others, lifestyle and associates, education and employment, dependency and recovery, and social inclusion.

**Join Our Team**
- Are you driven and passionate about working within a women-centred support service?
- Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding role working for an organisation that delivers specialist gender specific support to women and girls?
- Do you believe in our values; to listen and support, to empower and respect, collaborate, innovate and take accountability?

**What we can offer you - Employee Benefits**:

- 25 days holiday increasing by one day per year to a max of 30 days, plus public holidays
- Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution
- Annual cost of living increase up to 4%
- Enhanced Training and Induction programme covering all areas of Together Women’s work
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme with discount offers and free telephone counselling service
- Access to our online wellbeing platform
- Employee eye-care scheme and free eye tests
- Organisation wide away days
- Career development pathways

**Role Summary**

Together Women have been commissioned to provide needs-led support to women under the supervision of the National Probation Service across Humberside.

Women become involved in the Criminal Justice System for a complex range of reasons. In our gender-specific Centres, we provide holistic support _to _women _by _women, to overcome challenges and address needs. Through our work, we enable women to move on from support services and live fulfilling lives.

This service contract specifies that we provide support to women to overcome issues around their:

- Personal Wellbeing
- Accommodation
- Finance, Benefits and Debts
- Employment, Training and Education
- Family and Significant Others
- Lifestyle and Associates
- Social Inclusion
- Mental Health
- Dependency and Recovery

This role will be part of the Women’s Criminal Justice Team, delivering an inclusive and supportive programme driven to achieve the best for local communities. You will work closely with local community organisations to encourage women to access existing resources as well as working to build new opportunities. You will support women to build upon their strengths and work through any barriers that are preventing them from progressing and achieving their potential.

This role requires flexible working, which will include being office based, delivering within the community and the possibility of some remote working. Therefore, you will need to be able to work effectively independently, and as a virtual team, under pressure to meet challenging deadlines.

**Key Accountabilities**:
Responsible for a caseload of women, to whom you will provide high quality customer support via the following:

- Assisting women in identifying their own needs and supporting them to progress using a strength-based and trauma-informed approach to reduce the likelihood of further offending.
- Providing flexible, proactive outreach support to women who may be reluctant to engage with services or who need additional support to comply with Court/Prison Licence requirements, reducing the likelihood of breach or recall to custody.
- Accompanying women to appointments in the community, acting as advocate as required.
- Facilitating and delivering of therapeutic group work activities.
- Working with other practitioners within the Partnership to review and monitor women’s progress against agreed support plans.
- Determining the nature and extent of treatment and support that is appropriate to develop social capital and enable rehabilitation for women.
- Promoting the programme using branded literature and materials throughout the community and in local prisons.
- Contributing to the Development of a cohort of peers who can support learners.
- Establishing community focus and development approaches to ensure that all women accessing the service have effective, sustainable support networks in place.
- Identifying and supporting access to community resources to facilitate a successful exit from the programme.
- Working within and alongside an integrated model of care involving Health, Criminal Justice System and Social Care professionals.
- Encouraging feedback from women using the service in order to promote quality assurance.
- Contributing to measuring and monitoring systems as required.
- Ensuring all necessary records are properly maintained in line with policies on client files, finance and administration.
- Using evaluati