The Growth Company (GC) Justice Services team have an exciting opportunity for a Key Worker to deliver a range of interventions supporting emotional wellbeing, social integration and improved lifestyle choices for men under the supervision of The Probation Service.

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout South Yorkshire, by offering men under the supervision of the Probation Service the support necessary to live a healthy life. 

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
• Complete comprehensive assessments.
• 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:

• Experience of managing a caseload of service users to support them with improving their wellbeing.
• Detailed knowledge of the local health and wellbeing support landscape (statutory and community).

Essential Skills:

• Able 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.
• To be able to use digital channels and platforms in service delivery.
• Undertake supervision and observations desirable, although training provided.
• Strong interpersonal skills - service user contact, team and partnership working.

Desirable Skills:

• Hold Substance Misuse Awareness Level 3.
• Counselling Skills for Health Professionals.
• ACEs awareness.
• Motivational Interviewing.
• Asset-based Community Development.
• Mental Health First Aid.
• Suicide Awareness/Prevention.
• Working with victims and perpetrators of Domestic Abuse.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.

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.