Employment Caseworker
We are looking for volunteers who can commit at least 4 hours a week on an ongoing basis.
Full DBS check and travel expenses covered.
Volunteers receive information, advice and training
Weekly meetings are held on Saturday for 1 hour
The role as a Employment Caseworker
- Working in a team with other volunteers who provide support with housing, benefits, immigration, welfare, health, wellbeing, training, personal and professional development and other areas of challenge that clients might be facing.
- Supporting people who have been struggling with their employment and are relying on food donations as a result.
- Helping people to build their confidence and skill set for successful interviews.
- Offering support in communities that don't usually have access to employment support due to language barriers or simply not knowing how the UK system works.
Skills you will gain:
- Practice on building interview skills as the role requires a 30 minute interview with the Business Support Coordinator and Hub Advice Coordinator.
- Problem solving, working with a team of other volunteers and leads, learning and development opportunities.
- Provide advice and support to guide, encourage and support participants to overcome barriers to employment and achieve realistic job goals.
- Re-build participant confidence, self esteem and resilience.
- Work on both a 1-1 and group basis.
- Manage a caseload of participants; managing their journey to employment, offering advice and direction to enable participants to access support they need.
- Work as part of a team to ensure smooth delivery of the service and excellent client care. Work flexibly with an understanding that this is a new and developing service.
- Take on feedback from a variety of stakeholders and contribute to innovative changes and adaptations to service delivery.
- Ensure records are kept up-to-date and accessible to other team members and that casework is maintained effectively.
- Contribute to our online library of employment related resources, compiled and updated by the team.
Skills we are looking for
- Embraces our culture and values
- Puts those we serve at the heart of everything we do
- Can consistently deliver high quality services to support our communities and beneficiaries
Additional but not necessary-
- We work with a large number of people from Latin American communities. So, volunteers who speak Spanish will be of great help too.
