Caseworker (Vanguard Project)

Are you a collaborative, highly organised and compassionate individual with a proven record of providing support, advice and advocacy and communicating effectively the needs of clients to other professionals? Do you have extensive experience of assessing the needs of children and young people who are at risk of significant harm?

If so, join St Giles Trust as a Caseworker working on our vital Vanguard project, an NHS-led initiative that will include both clinically trained staff and caseworkers with lived experience aimed at under 25s who may be involved in or at risk of youth violence and have mental health or well-being issues that they may find hard to acknowledge and hard to find appropriate support for.

About St Giles Trust

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About This Exciting Opportunity

You will focus on supporting children and young people up to 25, who are affected by violence and exploitation and who may benefit from support around mental health. This will see you work closely with clinical colleagues to complete initial needs assessments with young people and support them to develop individual action, support and risk management plans based on assessments and regularly review to assess progress.

We will expect you to deliver a holistic support service that provides practical help, including social support, accompanying to appointments, education and training options, plus develop and maintain strong relationships with referral agencies and other stakeholders. Closing cases efficiently and positively, developing a survival plan for the client that will identify agencies that can be used for ongoing support, is an essential aspect of this role, as is collating and delivering monitoring information and supporting the evaluation of the project.

What We Are Looking For

• Personal experience of the criminal justice system, lived experience of the issues facing this client group and/or experience of working with ‘high risk’, vulnerable children, young people and/or families
• Experience of using support plans, to enable people to successfully access support services
• Substantial experience of engaging successfully with ‘challenging’ young people
• Experience of working as part of a multiagency team in a high intensity environment
• A knowledge of relevant services for young people and their families in the service provision area
• A flexible, proactive and self-motivated approach to your work
• Impressive interpersonal, prioritisation and communication skills, both verbal and written

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, childcare vouchers, season ticket loan and much more.

At time of writing a covid vaccination is not a requirement for this role, but as the post is NHS funded there is a possibility that at some time this may be a requirement.

If a covid vaccination becomes a requirement for this role then St Giles will consult with staff who are affected and may need to end the contracts of those unable to meet the new requirement.

For further information, or to apply, please visit our website via the ‘Apply’ button, oremail click apply for an application form.

Closing date: 11pm Tuesday 8th March 2022. Interview date: Tuesday 15th March 2022.