Bank Project Key Worker

Craven College; Skipton; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Craven College in Skipton invites applications for a committed Projects Key Worker to engage with the local community and partner agencies to identify eligible participants for Rise2Thrive/Multiply projects. You will provide tailored support via SMART targets to help participants progress toward employment, training, education, and improved wellbeing, and you will manage a caseload with admin duties.

Working with the Projects Team Leader, you will help develop strategies to support disengaged

Qualifications

• Experience of working in the local community and developing successful learning initiatives for individuals and groups.
• Experience of maintaining accurate records and producing high quality written and verbal reports.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills; ability to work with partners and travel within West/North Yorkshire.

Responsibilities

• Engage with the local community and agencies to identify eligible participants for Rise2Thrive/Multiply.
• Provide tailored support via SMART targets to help participants overcome barriers to employment, training, education, and wellbeing.
• Manage a caseload and administer caseload activities; work with Projects Team Leader to maximise project outputs and income.
• Assist in developing strategies to support disengaged, disadvantaged, and underrepresented individuals and communities.

Job description

We are currently seeking to employ a committed and motivated Projects Key Worker, to engage with the local community and relevant agencies to identify eligible participants for the Rise2Thrive/Multiply projects. To provide tailored support via SMART targets to enable eligible participants to overcome barriers that prevent them progressing towards employment, training, education, and improvement of wellbeing. To manage a caseload, administration of that caseload and to work closely with the Projects Team Leader to maximize projects income and outputs. The ideal candidate will support the Project Team Leader with developing strategies to support disengaged, disadvantaged, and underrepresented individuals and communities across the local community.

• Experience of working in the local community and of developing successful learning initiatives for individuals and groups.
• Experience in working with individual participants or groups
• Experience of maintaining accurate records;
• Experience of producing high quality written and verbal reports;
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to negotiate effectively;
• Experience of working within a team and with a variety of partners;
• Excellent planning and organisational skills;
• Ability to work under pressure, on own initiative to pre-determined targets and deadlines;
• Experience of effective strategies for engaging hard to reach learners;
• Computer literate with the ability to set up and maintain spreadsheets and databases, supported by a relevant IT qualification;
• Access to an appropriately insured vehicle and hold a clean, current driving licence;
• Ability to work flexibly around the needs of the College which will include regular travel within West and North Yorkshire. Craven College is an aspirational College set in friendly and inclusive rural campuses in Skipton within the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, at The Aviation Academy based airside at Leeds Bradford Airport and at Evolve in the heart of Ripon. Craven College offers full-time courses for 16-18-year-olds, apprenticeships, courses for young people with special educational needs, part-time courses and degree level courses with a mission statement of 'enriching lives through learning'. Tyro Training is our commercial training division which offers a wide range of training courses for both individuals and businesses in Skipton.

We continuously invest in our excellent, industry standard facilities with a new £1.6m purpose-built Animal Management Centre on our Aireville Campus followed in 2022 by the construction of new equestrian facilities including an international sized arena and outdoor warm up area.