Job Description

Location

South Yorkshire, HMP Doncaster

Company

Employment

Contract type

Permanent/ Full- time

Salary

Up to 27,500 per annum

Closing Date

07/07/2025

Ref No

4697

The Growth Company (GC)

Justice Services team have an exciting opportunity for a Key Worker to deliver a range of interventions supporting emotional wellbeing, social integration and improved lifestyle choices for men under the supervision of The Probation Service.



We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout South Yorkshire, by offering men under the supervision of the Probation Service the support necessary to live a healthy life.

This role is split between working in custody and the community and will require

travel between sites within South Yorkshire.

Key Responsibilities:

Ensure service users receive a personalised Wellbeing offer that meets individual needs/levels of complexity. Manage a wide range of service users, by caseload to achieve targets Complete comprehensive assessments. Identify, develop, and maintain effective relationships with key local services to support service users, including signposting, case conferencing. Deliver support to service users via appropriate channels, including digital, group workshops and face-to-face sessions. Produce high-quality service user action plans. Plan, deliver and evaluate group sessions for service users. Ensure Wellbeing contract compliance. Take part in observations, assess own delivery, and act on feedback, including undertaking CPD.

About you:

Experience of managing a caseload of service users to support them with improving their wellbeing. Detailed knowledge of the local health and wellbeing support landscape (statutory and community).

Essential Skills:

Able to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of outcomes. Ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions. To be able to use digital channels and platforms in service delivery. Undertake supervision and observations desirable, although training provided. Strong interpersonal skills - service user contact, team and partnership working. Full UK Drivers Licence and access to use of a vehicle to be able to travel across

Desirable Skills:

Hold Substance Misuse Awareness Level 3. Counselling Skills for Health Professionals. ACEs awareness. Motivational Interviewing. Asset-based Community Development. Mental Health First Aid. Suicide Awareness/Prevention. Working with victims and perpetrators of Domestic Abuse.
At GC, safeguarding the welfare of all individuals including vulnerable adults and young people is a top priority, and we expect all staff to uphold this standard. All appointments follow Safer Recruitment Procedures, including a DBS check carried out by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd), at no cost to the successful candidate.



Please note: It is a legal offence to apply for a role involving regulated activity if you are on the Barred List.



We are committed to increasing workforce diversity and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential criteria and either have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.



If this applies to you, you can request consideration under this scheme during the application process. Your request will be shared only with the Hiring Manager and Internal Recruitment Team.



We also aim to make our recruitment process inclusive and accessible. If you need reasonable adjustments or have any general enquiries at any stage or the recruitment process, please contact careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.



Examples include:


Meeting the hiring manager or touring the venue in advance Extra time for tasks Interview questions shared beforehand Accessibility software or equipment for assessments
We're proud to support the Ban the Box campaign, which helps people with convictions access job opportunities. As part of this, we've removed questions about convictions from the initial application stage.



GC is committed to fostering a culture of flexibility and agile working. Many roles will increasingly support full agile arrangements. If you require more permanent flexibility, we encourage you to discuss this during your interview so your request can be considered early in the process.



All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.