Outreach Caseworker

**Location**

Leeds

**Company**

Employment

**Contract type**

Permanent/ Full
- time

**Salary**

Up to £27,500 per annum

**Closing Date**

30/06/2025

**Ref No**

4607

**The Growth Company (GC**) is hiring an Outreach Caseworker to cover the North Yorkshire area to work within probation and HMP prisons**.**

You will be dual trained as a Caseworker and Activity Facilitator, providing advice, guidance, coaching, mentoring and support to a caseload of participants via regular 1:1 meetings and group interventions as appropriate.

**This role will be based at Leeds and Huddersfield Activity Hubs, with travel to outreach venues in North Yorkshire. Harrogate, Skipton, Northallerton and**support at HMP Wealstun, Leeds**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Assess individual learning needs and develop tailored action plans.
- Design and deliver training sessions and interventions for participants.
- Establish rapport and supportive relationships with participants.
- Assist participants in accessing and utilising information effectively.
- Document activities and progress in the CRM system, coordinating subsequent actions.
- Guide participants in implementing future plans and courses of action.
- Create and prepare learning materials.
- Lead group learning sessions to enhance communication, social skills, and employability.

**About You**:

- Experience working with offenders or marginalised individuals in training, guidance, advice, and counselling.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to work in a target-driven environment, focusing on successful outcomes.
- High-level guidance skills for one-to-one and group sessions.
- Warm, approachable, and empathetic style to build supportive relationships.
- Must have a clean driving licence and own transport.

**Skills Required**:

- Experience in supporting individual progression is most important.
- Knowledge of issues affecting offender rehabilitation and desistance theory.
- Familiarity with National Probation Services, HM Prison environments, and local/national training and employment opportunities.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.

We are committed to increasing workforce diversity and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential criteria and either have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

Examples include:

- Meeting the hiring manager or touring the venue in advance
- Extra time for tasks
- Interview questions shared beforehand
- Accessibility software or equipment for assessments

GC is committed to fostering a culture of flexibility and agile working. Many roles will increasingly support full agile arrangements. If you require more permanent flexibility, we encourage you to discuss this during your interview so your request can be considered early in the process.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.