Key Worker

1 day ago

Preston, United Kingdom The Growth Company Full time

The Growth Company’s Employment MOJ Personal Wellbeing team have a fantastic new opportunity for a Key Worker - Wellbeing who will delivery of a range of guidance and support services for Participants under the supervision of National Probation Service. You will contribute to individuals’ sustained improvement in health & wellbeing, creating coping skills, putting strategies in place to manage poor mental wellbeing and creating better links with families, friends and communities.

**Please note that this role will be working out of our Preston and Chorley centres on a daily basis.**

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond. Our highly skilled keyworkers work with a range of individuals delivering group and 1 to 1 sessions to people looking to overcome complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health, relationship breakdown, social isolation and debt.

**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.
- Deliver 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, particularly I 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).
- Strong IT skills which underpin consistent high quality recording.
- Understanding of the quality issues relating to delivery in Justice setting.

**Skills Required**:

- Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes.
- Able to deliver one-to-one and group sessions.
- Experience in using digital channels and platforms in service delivery.

GC 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. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

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

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

Pay: Up to £28,800.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Work from home

Shift:

- 8 hour shift

Work days:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 4301

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