Caseworker

Role:                Caseworker

Based:            Camberwell with travel across London

Rate:               £15.50 PAYE or £19.40 umb

Start Date:    ASAP

Duration:      6 month temporary contract

Hours:             17.5 hours per week - flexible

Our client is looking for a Caseworker to support adults facing barriers to employment, including long-term unemployment, low skills, insecure work, and economic exclusion.

Synopsis of Duties

• Working with participants to conduct a comprehensive initial assessment of their employment and wider needs.
• Co-develop and regularly review action plans, supporting individuals to carry out actions through one-to-one and group motivational advice and guidance.
• Working alongside Senior Caseworkers and a team of Peer Advisors and Volunteers to deliver flexible and supportive services to individuals with complex needs, aimed at improving their employability and helping them transition into sustainable employment.
• Supporting the promotion of the project, establishing and developing partnerships to create pathways for participants to join the project.
• Developing excellent relationships with colleagues and local stakeholders and identifying wider local services that can provide support to participants.
• Utilising recording systems for participants, supporting the Senior Caseworker / Team Manager with data for internal and external reporting purposes.

Essential Requirements:

•  Experience of working successfully with people who have multiple and complex needs and supporting them into sustainable employment
• An understanding of current labour market trends and knowledge of employment rights and contract types
• Experience managing a caseload of clients with complex needs.
• Experience of addressing safeguarding issues affecting adults.
• Skilled in conducting thorough risk assessments and identifying the needs of adults at risk of harm or who may be a risk to others.
• Proven ability to work effectively as part of a multi-agency team, particularly with a view to working successfully with referring agencies to support the needs of participants
• DBS on the update service
• Available immediately

Supporting Futures Consulting acts as both an employer and an agency.