Key Worker

Ref: KPF-251

Closing date 26th March 2025

Are you a proactive, compassionate and collaborative individual with a proven track record of engaging positively with young people, families, offenders, or other vulnerable groups?  Do you have strong experience of providing support, advice and advocacy and the ability to assess effectively clients’ needs?

If so, St Giles is looking for a Key Worker to join our team and provide a high-level service to vulnerable or at-risk young people across the different levels of need and support from early help to children and young people in care.

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
As a proactive member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will develop support plans and promote programmes of social education, activities, support, advice, and information, using a range of multi-sensory methods.  You will be expected to build positive relationships and promote the value of lifestyle changes to the client group and their families and work directly with them to promote positive change, build resilience, reduce risks, and prevent young people from experiencing significant harm.

We will also count on you to contribute to multi-disciplinary assessments of children and families in need of help and support and to provide both proactive planned programmes of support, and an intensive service to young people and their families in crisis.  Supporting and coaching young people in connecting with community resources and services is also a key aspect of this role, as is maintaining accurate records of support and interventions.

What we are looking for

• Proven record of engaging successfully with challenging people, for example people who have complex needs, people who are reluctant to discuss their needs, and people who are angry and confused
• Experience in negotiating with partner agencies to establish links to further the aims of a project
• Experience of working to targets and recording information and statistics to enable effective monitoring of performance against targets
• Knowledge of the client group and the challenges and motivations of young people
• A sound knowledge of gangs and ‘County Lines’ (drug distribution networks) and how they operate
• Excellent interpersonal, prioritisation and communication skills, verbal and written.

Please note: this role requires that successful candidates must undergo an Enhanced DBS check, on the basis that the post involves contact with vulnerable participants and colleagues.

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.

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.

To apply please click the apply button.

Closing date 26th March 2025.