Key Worker (North Craven) part-time (18hrs) - Closing date Monday 28 Sep 2020
18 hours per week £10,997 (£11.75 per hour)
NJC Scale 5 Spine Point 15 (FTE £22,911)
Responsible to the Creative & Wellbeing Projects Manager and working alongside our creative team and staff from partner organisations, the Keyworker manages a caseload of vulnerable participants for whom they provide: assessment, review, and goal planning support; support to take part in Pioneer activities; information, advice and guidance on progression towards volunteering, learning, employment or increased community involvement and; signposting and/or referral into other support. The Keyworker also supports the wider Pioneer team to record and manage participant data using the web based Compass Client Record Information Service and shares responsibility for managing the overall Compass in Craven website, encouraging and supporting other local organisations to sign up to and use the system. Work needs to be delivered in both face-to-face and remote settings that can overcome long term challenges such as the poor public transport and rurality of Craven District or shorter-term challenges such as the COVID 19 pandemic of 2020.
This role requires a confident, organised, can-do person, who: sees peoples’ potential, not their limitations; understands the power of creativity to positively impact on individual wellbeing and unlock this potential; has the skills, sensitivity, and experience to support vulnerable participants; is confident in doing personal assessments, reviews and goal setting; is IT literate and able to support others to use technology effectively and; is able to build effective local networks that ensure our support is a journey, not a destination.
