Lincoln

£11.48 PAYE/ £15 LTD per hour

Full-Time and Part-Time

Purpose of the job:

To improve the lives of young people using our services by providing direct housing related support services together with housing and property management to an individual or groups of individuals in conjunction with Senior Support Workers, Assistant Support Workers, the Team Manager and any appropriate external support agencies with the aim of achieving a successful move-on and other measurable outcomes. There may also be a requirement to work on own in the community and/ or service setting.

You will help change the lives of young people by:

Working with young people, offering creative and innovative supported opportunities for them to improve their quality of life develop their skills and make decisions about their future.
Acting as individual 'Keyworker' to a group of identified young people, taking lead responsibility within Nacro for the co-ordination and delivery of their support.
Drawing up and delivering support in accordance with a support plan drawn up during discussion between the young person and their Support Worker and / or Senior Support Worker.
Assisting colleagues in their work with young people and their families, helping to identify needs and to assist in working towards achieving positive outcomes.
Assisting colleagues to work in partnership with parents/carers, assisting to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.
Helping to run programmes of activity and group-work.
Working co-operatively with children's services, health agencies and other community-based services, helping to provide the most effective service for young people and their families.

In addition, the ideal candidate will engage fully in regular supervision with their line manager and adhere to Nacro's Health and Safety and Safeguarding policies and procedures at all times and comply with legislation and statutory duties and data controls protocols.

Please note, due to the nature of this role, the post-holder will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Guidant is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.