Job Description

The Growth Company\xe2\x80\x99s Employment MOJ Personal Wellbeing Lancashire team have a fantastic new opportunity for a Key Worker \xe2\x80\x93 Wellbeing who will delivery of a range of guidance and training services for customers under the supervision of National Probation Service, contribute to individuals\xe2\x80\x99 sustained improvement in health & wellbeing. progression into employment, training and education.

Please note that this role will cover Lancashire but will be based in our Preston/Blackpool centres.

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment. Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health 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)
• Understanding of the quality issues relating to delivery in Justice setting
• Ability to understand, demonstrate and apply GC values: Make a positive difference, Stronger together, Empower people, Do the right thing, Build on success

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
• Ability to undertake supervision and observations desirable, although training provided

Location

Lancashire, Blackpool, Preston

Business Area Logo

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Company Logo

The Growth Company

Company

The Growth Company

Contract type

Permanent/ Full- time

Salary

Up to \xc2\xa328,000 per annum

Advert Brand

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Closing Date

17/09/2023

Ref No

3739

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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 Education and Skills appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check and a professional social media check. These checks 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.

GC is 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 an 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 recruiting 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\xe2\x80\x99re 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.

Should you apply for any of our roles, we will be completing interviews virtually or face to face, dependent on the role. This will be explained further should you reach interview stage. We will be more than happy to explain the measures we have put in place, ahead of you attending any of our premises.

If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment team at or call us on 0161 237 4447.

The Growth Company