Senior Caseworker (Peer Circles) - Maternity Cover

Senior Caseworker (Peer Circles) - Maternity Cover

Are you an influential, proactive, and collaborative individual with a proven track record of working successfully with challenging people who have multiple and complex needs?

Do you have a commitment to the concept and effectiveness of peer approaches?

If so, St Giles is looking for a Senior Caseworker to join us and provide support and activities for adults with complex needs and severe and multiple disadvantages to enable participants to develop improved employability skills and progress into sustainable employment.

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 overcoming issues such as offending, homelessness, addictions, and gang involvement hold the key to positive change in others.

About this key role

As our Senior Caseworker, you will work with participants to agree and regularly review an action plan and help them carry out actions on their plan via delivering one-to-one and group motivational advice and guidance.

We will count on you to provide effective leadership, support, and guidance to a team of Peer Advisors in delivering flexible services to individuals with complex needs to improve their employability skills and help them move into sustainable employment.

You will also be expected to organise the promotion of the project, coordinate the recruitment and engagement of participants, ensure each participant has a comprehensive initial assessment of their employment and wider needs, and develop excellent relationships with colleagues and local stakeholders to identify wider local services that can support participants.

• The ability to assess the needs of vulnerable clients and provide client-led support to address these needs in various ways.
• Thorough understanding of the principles of needs and risk assessment, care co-ordination/planning, and the ability to coach others in these skills.
• Proven record of supervising and supporting a team of volunteers to deliver positive outcomes for vulnerable people.
• The ability to use monitoring systems to record all aspects of project activity.
• Experience of maintaining accurate financial records and evidencing all expenditure.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Please note: This role requires successful candidates to undergo an Enhanced DBS check, as 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 (4x 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, especially from people of the global majority (Black, Brown, Multi-heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neurodiverse, or with any protected characteristics or social barriers. We value the empowering and diverse perspectives that lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer our organisation.

St Giles guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for this vacancy.