Employment Caseworker
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Ref ECW-241
Are you a collaborative, flexible and compassionate individual with a proven record of successfully supporting ex-offenders into sustainable employment? Do you have sound experience of working on a target-driven project and a proven ability to manage a caseload and achieve individual set targets for engagement, training, apprenticeship and employment?
If so, St Giles is looking for an Employment Caseworker to support delivery of our high-level Southwark Works service, which provides a programme of engagement, advocacy and support to vulnerable adults who may have multiple barriers, including experience of the criminal justice system, substance misuse, homelessness and learning difficulties.
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 key role
Our successful candidate will be responsible for engaging, motivating, advocating for and providing one-to-one customised support to a caseload of clients aged 18+ experiencing a range of barriers, including offending, gang involvement/ risk of, substance use, homelessness, poverty, mental health, disability or are in low-quality work. Your vital support will help them to overcome their employment and wider barriers and make progress with their personal goals and ambitions.
Working as an integral part of an energetic and highly motivated team, we will count on you to develop and deliver one-to-one and group activities which are engaging and high quality, while also engaging employers and working collaboratively with both local agencies and Peer Advisors on the project.
What we are looking for
- Experience of engaging people via outreach and promotion, including liaising with relevant local agencies to generate referrals
- Awareness of Matrix standards and ability to implement quality assurance measures
- Level 3 Advice and Guidance qualification or equivalent
- Ability to engage and holistically support people who face multiple barriers to employment
- Awareness of the issues faced by the client group in accessing and sustaining employment
- Knowledge of the better work agenda and how this impacts on clients, including the ability to source better work opportunities
- An understanding of current labour market trends, employment rights and contract types
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
- A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.
As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients and successful applicants will require an Enhanced Adult Workforce DBS Check.
In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, clinical therapist sessions, life insurance (4 x annual salary), duvet days, season ticket loan, employee perks programme, eye care voucher and much more.
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We actively encourage people with personal experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing this client group to apply for this role.
Closing date: 1 July 2024. Interview date: 10 July 2024.
We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.
St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
