Key Worker

The Growth Company has an exciting new vacancy for a Key Worker who will support individuals to make sustained changes to their lifestyles which, in turn, improve their health & wellbeing.

As a Keyworker on this male only services you will be supporting a caseload of people on Probation to work towards their goals and provide holistic support, particularly tailored to their emotional wellbeing, any mental health and substance use needs, support around relationships be this with family, friends or children and their lifestyle, peer groups and influences. Experience of caseload management within a related sector is desirable.

**This role is covering Lancashire but based in Blackpool - please note that this is a hybrid working role.**

**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
- 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**
- 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
- Developing strength-based action plans Detailed knowledge of the local health and wellbeing support landscape (statutory and community)

**Essential Skills Required**
- Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes
- Ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions
- Ability to use digital channels and platforms in service delivery
- Ability to undertake supervision and observations desirable, although training provided - can get rid of this
- Strong interpersonal skills - service user contact, team and partnership working
- Experience of caseload management within a related field

**Desirable Skills**
- Hold Substance Misuse Awareness Level 3
- Counselling Skills for Health Professionals
- ACE-trained
- Asset-based Community Development
- Mental Health First Aid
- Suicide Awareness/Prevention
- Working with victims and perpetrators of Domestic Abuse
- Use of ITEP/Node-Link mapping as behaviour change tool

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.

The Growth Company 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.

Reasonable adjustments for interviews, whether virtual or face to face, will be considered.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Up to £27,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme

Day range:

- Monday to Friday

Shift:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Blackpool, FY4 1EW: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Blackpool, FY4 1EW

Reference ID: 3388