Key Worker

Job information

Employment type:

contract

Location:

Bolton, England, United Kingdom

Job Description

We are RecruitingKey Workers

Salary from £25,466 – £28,817- permanent

Location: Bolton probation

We are excited to advertise a number of new posts for our innovative employment and learning support service – The Greater Manchester Education, Training and Employment Service (GM ETE). Our delivery will support the Probation Service’s service users into quality learning and employment opportunities. 

If you have experience of working with disadvantaged people, and /or offenders and you want to make a difference, we would love to hear from you.

The job will involve working with people on probation or subject to community supervision by Probation Service (NPS), to engage them in learning, training and employment opportunities, both through one-to-one and group work. You will be paid for any accrued travel expenses.

You’ll need to be proactive, a good communicator and able to manage your own caseload. The successful candidate will have experience and/or skills to deliver group work to people who have faced disadvantages. You will be effective at working with partner organisations to ensure the best results for our participants. Recording of accurate information on participant records is an important part of the job, so you’ll need to be comfortable working on databases and systems and have a strong attention to detail.

Essential job duties

• Complete initial assessment appointments with all new referrals.
• Create action plans outlining activities to be undertaken with service users.
• Motivate service users to engage with the programme and attend appointments.
• Effectively case manage service users.
• Deliver interventions as outlined in the action plan.
• Signpost service users to specialist support organisations for further support.
• Tailor support to suit service user needs and learning styles.
• Effectively liaise with Probation Practitioners.
• Support service users to achieve employability outcomes and make positive steps to change their lives.