Role: Community Keyworker
Location: Colchester and Chelmsford
Rate: £18 umb
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Temp ongoing
Hours: 35 hours per week – Hybrid, 1 day home working
Our client, a specialist charity, is looking for a Community Keyworker to join their team. The role involves working with women involved in the Criminal Justice System, those on Probation in the Community, and women being released from Prison as part of their Post Sentence Supervision.
Synopsis of duties:
1. Providing some in-reach and ‘Through the Gate’ support
2. Working with a team of Community Keyworkers in the region
3. Providing holistic one-to-one community support to women with diverse needs and in touch with the Criminal Justice System
4. Offering dedicated one-to-one support, safer women’s centre spaces, and specialist interventions and partnerships
5. Building relationships with statutory and non-statutory agencies to establish referral pathways and adopt a whole system approach
6. Meeting women in the community within designated boroughs and co-locating with other agencies, including the National Probation Service
7. Attending North London's Women’s Centre/office space regularly
Essential Requirements:
* Good knowledge of the criminal justice system and awareness of support provisions
* Experience working with vulnerable groups
* Experience managing a caseload
* Ability to recognize and respond to safeguarding concerns
* Experience working within a multi-agency and legislative framework
* Enhanced Adult and Child DBS on the update service or dated within the last 12 months
Supporting Futures Consulting acts as both an employer and an agency.
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