Experience Project Worker 1 year experience

- Project worker experience: 1+ years

- Caseloads: 10 - 15

- Key Working

- Confident in using computers

- Risk Assessments

- SMART

The successful candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, working across Monday - Sunday on a rota basis, covering early (8AM - 4PM), mid (10AM - 7PM) and late (2:30PM - 10:30PM) shifts. Temporary cover is required for approximately 3 months.

Please note: you'll be working across multiple services within the Greenwich area (all within a 15 minute walk or short drive of each other)

In this position, you will be required to:
- Hold a caseload of 10-12 young people and undertake regular key working sessions resulting in agreed SMART Support Plans
- Complete comprehensive needs and risk assessments, and risk management plans
- Organise, attend and contribute to multi-agency meetings.
- Interview and comprehensively assess referrals to the project to ensure the criteria is met and suitable young people are accepted
- Support young people to identify opportunities for move-on to appropriate PRS, other supported, shared or self-contained accommodation and make appropriate referrals
- Work with mediation or other social workers to enable young people to move back home if appropriate
- Work in partnership with internal departments and external community agencies in ensure that client needs are met, including housing and mental health services and GPs.
- Work with young people to maximise benefit entitlements and secure project income through the collection of rents and service charges and the minimisation of arrears and void loss
- Support young people that are ready to move into work, education or training by assisting them to access suitable courses or placements.
- Work with young people to identify activities that they would like to take part in, to prepare them for independence and move through
- Run activities or small groups in response to identified client need
- Conduct health and safety checks, including room checks and report maintenance issues.
- Clean and prepare rooms for new referrals and once referrals are accepted, ensure new residents are made to feel comfortable and settled

Please note: this role involves lone working.

To apply for this role, you must have:
- Experience of working with at-risk young adults in a residential setting
- The ability to demonstrate through practice how 'Every Child Matters' relates to the young people living in the accommodation
- An understanding and experience of applying effective ways of working with young people, in particular; YP's with mental health and attachment needs including emerging personality disorder and/or significant self-harm.
- Experience of working in a recovery focused way and a good understanding of the principles and how they can be related to risk and needs assessment, planning, goal setting and reviewing with young people.
- Experience of working with young people to develop life skills and support their involvement in meaningful activities
- Knowledge of welfare benefits for under 21's, rents and service charges.