Senior Caseworker

Role: Senior Caseworker

Based: Camberwell with regular travel across London

Rate: £20ph umb (perm salary £30,000)

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: Temp ongoing (funding until June 2027)

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday - 9am 5pm

Our client is looking for a Senior Caseworker to be part of Poverty Services, supporting 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 an action plans, supporting individuals to carry out actions through one-to-one and group motivational advice and guidance.
• Leading 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.
• Providing day-to-day supervision, support, and guidance to the team, allocating work, and carrying out your own direct work with participants.
• Organising 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, managing the day-to-day budget and expenses of the project, and providing data and narrative reports for internal and external purposes.

Essential Requirements:

• Substantial experience in 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
• Demonstrable experience managing a caseload of clients with complex needs.
• Experience in independently 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.