Criminal Justice Keyworker

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

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

**Criminal Justice Key Worker (Leeds)**

**Salary**: £28,266

**Location**: Leeds

**Hours**: 37 hours full-time (Part time also available)

**Closing Date**:12PM, 16th June 2025

**Interview Date**: TBC

Together Women is looking for an outstanding Key Worker to be part of our Leeds 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**

In our gender-specific Centres, we provide holistic support _to _women _by _women, to overcome challenges and address needs. We help women build upon their strengths and work through any barriers that are preventing them from progressing and achieving their potential.

The Criminal Justice Key Worker will engage with and provide intensive support to women on Probation, offering needs-led, emotional and practical support relating to the Accommodation, Finance, Benefits and Debts, Family and Significant Others. Emotional Wellbeing, Dependency and Recovery, Lifestyle and Associates, Employment and Education, and Social Inclusion support pathways.

You will work closely with Probation staff, who are co-located at our Centre, as well as with Together Women teams and local community organisations to enable and encourage women to access relevant support and resources. You will work with women to help them build upon their strengths and work through any barriers that are preventing them from progressing and achieving their potential.

Working within the Women’s Criminal Justice Team you will be proactive, organised, personable and empathic. You will need to be able to work effectively independently, sometimes under pressure to meet challenging deadlines. Prison clearance will be required.

Working within the Women’s specialist team you will be dynamic, personable, creative and empathic.

**Key Accountabilities**

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

- Promoting, receiving and processing referrals in line with current practice guidelines.
- Safeguarding vulnerable women from self-neglect, abuse and harm by acting in accordance to Together Women’s Safeguarding Policies and Government Legislation
- Identifying and assessing individuals’ support needs including risk assessment and informed by relevant background information.
- Building effective relationships with women; to encourage them to identify and respond to their needs, interests and personal development; and to provide guidance and support to enable them to deal with a wide range of issues affecting their lives.
- Working within and alongside an integrated model of care involving Health, Criminal Justice System and Social Care professionals.
- Providing continuous and consistent support to women and supporting them to navigate and access services.
- Delivering gender-specific and trauma-informed interventions in 1:1s / by facilitating group sessions.
- Encouraging feedback from women using the service in order to promote quality assurance.
- Supporting women to help them make progress feel more stable and remain motivated to access current and future support and treatment.
- Contribute to measuring and monitoring systems as required.
- Ensure all necessary records are properly maintained in line with policies on client files, finance and administration.
- Use evaluation, learning, experience and use feedback to support service development.
- Manage and update own skills base to ensure quality service delivery and personal development in role.
- Help with the general running of the Centre.

**Role Requirements**
- Essential Criteria:_
- Experien