Liaison and Diversion B3 Support Worker inCoventry inCoventry PUBLISHED
THU 31 OCT 2024
Candidates should demonstrate a commitment to high-quality care, flexibility in a multi-agency team environment, and effective communication skills. The role requires traveling across Coventry and Warwickshire to engage with service users and partners. This position is part of an innovative initiative targeting marginalized individuals with health and social needs, with the goal of reducing health inequalities and reoffending rates.
Liaison and Diversion Support Worker Band 3
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic B3 Support worker to work within our embedded community outreach team within the current existing Liaison and Diversion service.
The team with support of criminal justice partners and colleagues aims to divert people away from the criminal justice system and reduce reoffending by addressing underlying social vulnerabilities and unmet needs.
If you are seeking a new challenge, we encourage you to apply and be part of a new innovative team.
Working within our Warwickshire Outreach team, you will support the teams practitioners in their assessment and interventions by identifying social vulnerabilities, working with partners within the third and voluntary sectors such as substance/alcohol misuse services/housing services etc to meet unmet needs/vulnerabilities and provide short term ongoing support in the community, to ensure they are able to access further support needed on discharge.
You will liaise with liaison and diversion outreach practitioners , key stakeholders and partners within the criminal justice system as well as the third sector.
Are you ready to take on the challenge and help to make a real difference to people's lives, and work in a dynamic and exciting environment?
Is this you?
Are able to demonstrate a commitment to high quality care and service provision. Have the ability to work flexibly and work as part of a multi-agency team?
Are willing to travel across the Coventry and Warwickshire area where needed to support contact with our service users and partners?
Have enhanced communication and inter- personal skills?
Then we would like to hear from you!
About us
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
The Criminal Justice Liaison and Diversion service is a an existing successful service embedded in the heart of the criminal justice system, all age/all vulnerability we support some of the most marginalised people within society with a range of health and social needs in the hope that working together we can make subsequent health gains, reduce health inequalities and reduce the cycle of re offending .
We are a growing and supportive team with a number of new innovations and services to come.
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