Caseworker
Homebased (living in London, Surrey, Sussex or Kent with travel to customers’ homes)
The Organisation
Our client is dedicated to helping people in horticulture. They provide free support, information, advice and services.
They are currently seeking a Caseworker to join their team on a permanent, full-time basis.
The Benefits
- Salary of up to £30,000 per annum (depending on experience)
- 25 days’ holiday, plus Bank Holidays
- Pension
- DIS benefit (3x salary)
- Sickness pay
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Well-established family friendly policies, including the ability to have extra unpaid leave
- Time off for dependants
This is a fantastic opportunity for a certified advice and guidance professional with experience of staffing a helpline and an understanding of interventions to join our client’s crucial organisation.
This is your chance to play a pivotal part in cultivating an empowered and supportive environment for those in need.
So, if you’re ready to bloom in a rewarding career with a passionate team, then apply today!
The Role
As a Caseworker, you will provide advice, information and support to people experiencing challenges and adverse life events.
Specifically, you will help explore issues and identify, co-ordinate and implement solutions.
You will offer generalist advice across areas such as social care, health, benefits, housing and employment, aiming to build enough confidence for the individual to address these problems personally in the future.
About You
To be considered as a Caseworker, you will need:
- Experience undertaking comprehensive holistic assessments across outcome areas of health, wellbeing, self-care, housing, money, family, relationships, safety and crime
- Experience measuring the impact of interventions delivered
- Experience delivering a telephone helpline or advice service in the community or service users' homes
- Experience of working within safeguarding frameworks
- Good knowledge of legal and welfare issues relating to children and vulnerable adults
- A certificate in Advice and Guidance (or the willingness to gain the qualification during the probationary period)
Please note, this role requires some weekend working and overnight stays. Travel across the UK to meetings will be required.
The closing date for applications is the 21st April 2024.
Other organisations may call this role, Helpline Caseworker, Benefits Advisor or Employment Advisor.
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