Job Description
Supporting young people who have entered the Criminal Justice System who are typically hard to engage, you will talk to the young people and their families to gain a holistic understanding of the client’s circumstances and facilitate their access to support services, providing individualised support with practical problems or difficulties that may be affecting their health and wellbeing, providing help and advice on improving mental wellbeing, overcoming drug and alcohol issues, housing, social isolation and exclusion, education, debt management and employment problems.
About the Job:
- Working flexibly, visiting custody suites, magistrates’ courts, and other locations in the community, you will enjoy travelling across multiple sites and have access to your own car.
- This post is for 9-5 Monday to Friday.
- It is a requirement to be able to drive to attend various areas.
- This role is a screening and triage, to offer support to those who are going through the criminal justice process and to signpost and aid engagement with appropriate services. You will Utilise screening tools/rating scales to gain an understanding of an individual's difficulties
- This role requires holding a small caseload of service users for up to six weeks, to aid and encourage their engagement with services. Provide time limited 1:1 support to clients giving information and/or support to allow them to access a wide range of agencies and services that can provide help and advice with for example, housing, social isolation and exclusion.
- Although working within a team, this role requires a degree of confidence in working independently.
Some of the benefits of joining our team:
- AfC Salary ranging from £23,949 - £26,282per annum.
- Flexible working opportunities and a strong emphasis on your work, life balance.
- Annual leave – 27 days for new starters, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years NHS service. Pro rata for part time staff.
- Excellent learning and development opportunities.
- Salary sacrifice scheme for a new car.
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff.
- Advanced IT enablement and support.
- Confidential telephone care service providing independent support and advice for staff.
- And so much more.
The “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:
With an NVQ level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent and relevant training to diploma level.
Eager to improve supported access to services, you will engage with community services and agencies.
An empathetic advocate of service users, you will promote their rights and responsibilities, building a rapport, whilst maintaining appropriate and transparent boundaries.
You will be emotionally resilient, able to cope with people displaying challenging behaviour and distressing situations.