Adult Early Help Link Worker
Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest
Salary: PO2 £39,951 - £42,840
Contract Type: Full time Fixed term
Working hours per week: 36
Application Deadline: 8th September 2024
Proposed Interview Date(s): 16th & 17th September 2024
Reference:1373
About Us:
Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London's Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.
The Council's preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.
About the role:
As an Adult Early Help Link Worker you will support residents with emerging needs and independent living and wellbeing needs, as outlined in the Adults Threshold Guidance, to identify and achieve self-defined wellbeing goals. Act as a single, local point of contact in order to provide advice, information, and support in the community to individuals and of all ages and across service types and their families including carers, who may be facing difficult life situations and who may be disabled, older or have mental health issues.
Adult Early Help Link Workers work within a strength-based practice model, ensuring relationships are built with, compassion, responsibility, collaboration, curiosity, creativity and is focused on outcomes that enable people to be safe, well, resilient and independent.
Adult Early Help Link Workers work closely with Adult Social Care teams and voluntary and community sector staff within a broader wellbeing network. Link Workers will work within Welcome Hubs, community settings and with a range of other professionals.
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Key Responsibilities:
As an Adult Early Help Link Worker you will have experience of working alongside and supporting individuals and families from a variety of backgrounds and with varying abilities, strengths and needs. You will have have the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with individuals with emerging needs, alongside supporting people to access accurate, timely and relevant information and assist individuals, families and communities to access information through a variety of means.
As a Link Worker you are able to identify and respond to potential safeguarding situations, maintaining effective longer-term support. You will have the ability and experience to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals.
You have the ability to maintain and develop effective working partnerships and relationships with key referral services such as Adult Social Care.
Qualifications and Requirements:
Educated to degree standard or equivalent
Relevant qualification in Community Development, Education, Health or Social Care - A degree or post-graduate degree level or equivalent.
Considerable post qualification experience is required.
OR
Relevant degree qualification or equivalent or 5 years' experience in a similar role at a similar level. All certificates to be provided at interview for validation
Terms and conditions:
The below terms and conditions apply to this role:
Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with vulnerable adults;
Satisfactory DBS check;
As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the 'Apply' button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.
For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Caoimhe McKenna, Adult Early Help Team Manager at caoimhe.mckenna@walthamforest.gov.uk or 07775790223.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.
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