Caseworker - London & South East, HARRIS HILL

Guardian Jobs; London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity is seeking a Caseworker to provide essential support and advice to individuals in horticulture. The role involves conducting assessments and delivering services across various areas, including health and housing. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and experience in community services.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering advice across employment, housing, and health.
• Ability to produce concise reports and case records.
• Experience in community advice services or helplines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver generalist advice in areas like health, benefits, and housing.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and case management.
• Interact and network with various stakeholders.

Skills

Holistic assessments

Communication skills

Active listening

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Harris Hill are partnering with a fantastic charity, passionate about building better futures for people working in horticulture, in their search for a Caseworker based in London/SouthEast.

The Casework Team deliver help services which include advice, information and support for people working across horticulture. The team provide generalist advice across areas such as social care, health, benefits, housing and employment, often having an area of speciality.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience undertaking comprehensive holistic assessments across outcome areas of health, wellbeing, self-care, housing, money, family, relationships, safety and crime
• Experience of measuring the impact of interventions delivered
• Experience of delivering advice to people, across areas of employment, money confidence, housing, social care, benefits and health systems
• Experience in delivering a telephone helpline or advice service in the community or on occasion in service users homes
• Experience of scrutinising complex information to produce concise reports, comprehensive case records and high-quality casework and associated correspondence
• Highly developed communication skills including, discretion and capacity to deal efficiently, and effectively with people experiencing traumatic or difficult circumstances and/or from different cultural backgrounds
• Experience of using interpersonal skills, including active listening and questioning skills to understand the needs of others, causal issues to inform case management plans
• Ability to interact and network with line managers, colleagues, volunteers, partner organisations, external agencies and service users
• Ability to work flexibly across geographical regions as required

CVs are being reviewed on a rolling basis, so if this sounds like you, then please do get in touch for more information ASAP!

Please note, only successful candidates will be contacted with further information.

As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.