Criminal Justice Keyworker

Red Snapper Recruitment are recruiting for a criminal justice key worker for a client of ours based in Leeds. Our client is an award-winning charity that supports women and girls across Yorkshire and Humberside, with particular focus on women who are involved in or at risk of entering the criminal justice system.

The Criminal Justice Key Worker will engage with and provide intensive support to women on Probation, offering needs-led, emotional and practical support relating to the Accommodation, Finance, Benefits and Debts, Family and Significant Others, Emotional Wellbeing, Dependency and Recovery, Lifestyle and Associates, Employment and Education, and Social Inclusion support pathways.

Location: Leeds

Salary: £28,266 per annum

Contract type: Full-time, permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

Please note the successful candidate will need to be level one probation vetted.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Promoting, receiving and processing referrals in line with current practice guidelines.
• Safeguarding vulnerable women from self-neglect, abuse and harm.
• Identifying and assessing individuals’ support needs including risk assessment and informed by relevant background information.
• Building effective relationships with women; to encourage them to identify and respond to their needs, interests and personal development; and to provide guidance and support to enable them to deal with a wide range of issues affecting their lives.
• Working within and alongside an integrated model of care involving Health, Criminal Justice System and Social Care professionals.
• Providing continuous and consistent support to women and supporting them to navigate and access services.
• Delivering gender-specific and trauma-informed interventions in 1:1s / by facilitating group sessions.
• Encouraging feedback from women using the service in order to promote quality assurance.
• Supporting women to help them make progress feel more stable and remain motivated to access current and future support and treatment.
• Contribute to measuring and monitoring systems as required.
• Ensure all necessary records are properly maintained in line with policies on client files, finance and administration.
• Use evaluation, learning, experience and use feedback to support service development.
• Manage and update own skills base to ensure quality service delivery and personal development in role.

Person Specification:

• Experience of the delivery of services for women.
• Knowledge and understanding of the challenges faced by women, the pathways into offending, and the impact this can have on their life chances and outcomes.
• Experience of working with women within a support role/frontline capacity, ideally with experience of strengths-based working and/or trauma-informed approaches.
• Experience assessing needs and risks, and translating these into a person-centred support and safety plan.
• Experience of case management and recording, or equivalent record keeping experience.
• Experience of building positive partnerships with other agencies and experience/an understanding of the benefits of collaborative problem solving.
• Strong IT skills (PC literate and competent in using MS Office).
• GCSE (or equivalent) in Maths & English - Grade C or above.
• Satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

Due to the high volume of applications received, if you do not hear from us within 7 working days, I am afraid your application has been unsuccessful.