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Details...

Job title:
Key Worker (Young Persons)
Job reference:
PEDRM10
Department
Place Services
Grade:
SCP 22-25
Pay:
From: £21,074 To: £23,111 per annum
Hours:
37 hours per week
Closing date:
22/10/2018

Description...

This is an exciting opportunity to provide Information, Advice and Guidance to participants of a major employment programme in St Helens. The programme, part of St Helens Council’s ESF and YEI-funded ‘Ways to Work’ Programme, aims to provide support to people who experience barriers to participating in the labour market, and will deliver hundreds of job outcomes.

1 Young Persons Key Worker (Fixed Term to 30/03/2020) – working with NEET young people (16-29) to support and facilitate the removal of often complex and multiple barriers to employment.

You will engage with and manage a case load of clients and help to assess individual barriers to employment and develop and implement a personalised plan, creating an individualised pathway to sustained employment. You will remain as the single point of contact for support for participants as they make their journey towards employment.

With a track record of providing employment-related Information, advice and guidance support to one or more of the target client groups mentioned above, you will have the personal skills and ability to deal with your own changing and dynamic caseload of clients, each with their own set of personalised requirements, and support the clients on individualised pathways to move them closer to the labour market, with the ultimate aim of securing sustainable employment.

Based in St Helens, midway between Liverpool and Manchester.

Previous Applicants need not apply.

For an informal discussion please contact Andrew Beresford 01744 676130

When applying for this vacancy, you have the following options

For an application form and further details contact:

recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk

When requesting an application form please state your name, your address, the job you are interested in and the job reference number.
The Council's official job application form must be completed in all cases. CVs should not be submitted as a replacement.