Lead Worker Plus Young People - Maternity Cover

Trident Group – UK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

34 days annual leave

Birthday day off

Life assurance 3x salary

Employee assistance & wellbeing

Flexible working options

Learning & Development

Job summary

Trident Group is recruiting for a Lead Worker Plus Young People in Birmingham. The role offers a fixed term maternity cover at £26,227 per year for 37.5 hours weekly, with a closing date of 25 September 2026.

The job focuses on person-centred support, safeguarding, risk management and collaboration with partner agencies to empower vulnerable clients. The team values autonomy, reliability and teamwork, and provides benefits including generous annual leave and life assurance.

Qualifications

• Relevant legislation knowledge for safeguarding and support work.
• Experience in busy support environments and record keeping.
• Experience with Microsoft applications and MS Office suite.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centered support to customers and empower life skills.
• Signpost to information, support, guidance and advice.
• Collaborate with external agencies for customer benefit.
• Complete and follow risk assessments and health and safety policy.
• Maintain accurate records, support plans and checks.
• Ensure non-judgemental service in line with equality and diversity.
• Record client risk information and contribute to risk management.
• Safeguard vulnerable adults, young people and children as required.
• Attend training and implement outcomes; follow incident management policies.
• Perform any other duties as required.

Skills

Legislation knowledge

Support environment

Record keeping

MS Office

Relevant qualification

Multi-agency partnerships

Autonomy

Accountable

Punctuality

Education

Relevant qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Reference 187275

Lead Worker Plus Young People

Birmingham

£26227.00 per annum

37.5 hours per week

Fixed Term Contract - Maternity Cover

Closing date: 25th Septembet 2026

About the role

To provide person centered support to customers, reporting any safeguarding concerns in line with policy and procedure. To support customers with life skills and empower them to make a positive contribution to society and become self sufficient; this includes recording case studies that reflect achievements of outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing a flexible, responsive service which operates in a timely and person centred manner
• Signposting customers to relevant sources of information, support, guidance and advice
• Effectively working in partnership with external agencies for the benefit of customers
• Completing and following clear risk assessments, and adhering to the organisations Health and Safety Policy
• Completing and maintaining accurate records in line with the requirements (including detailed support plans, risk assessments and regular checks).
• Ensuring all service delivery is non-judgemental and is delivered in line with equality and diversity requirements.
• Accurately record and capture client risk information and contribute to the formation of risk management plans.
• To ensure the health, wellbeing and safety of vulnerable adults, young people and children in line with Safeguarding regulations. Play an active role in working flexibly to support the service as and when necessary.
• Follow all lone working arrangements to insure personal safety.
• Attending all training courses and delivering on the outcomes.
• Ensure that in the event of an incident that the incident management policy is followed.
• Any other duties as required by the role.

Who we’re looking for?

• A working knowledge of legislation in regards to delivering support to vulnerable people.
• Experience of working within a busy support environment.
• Experience of keeping accurate and compliant records.
• Experience of working with Microsoft applications.
• A relevant qualification specific to the role.
• Experience of working with mutil agency partnerships.
• The ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team.
• Accountable.
• Reliable and punctual

Why join us?

This is not just a ‘job’ this is the feeling of knowing that you are part of something bigger and being able to go home each day with job satisfaction and pride in what is achieved by Trident Group every day.

Our purpose is putting people and communities at the heart of our services and the safe homes we provide. To deliver against our purpose we will be:

• Trustworthy
• Collaborative
• Accountable
• People Focused
• Caring in all we do

The benefits

• 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
• A day off for your birthday
• 4 days off when you move home
• Life assurance (3 x salary)
• Employee Assistance programme & wellbeing programme
• Flexible Working options
• Learning & Development opportunities

Who we are?

Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services and innovationfor up to8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than650 staff, works with volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more.

The Group consists of;

• Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance
• Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering trauma informed care and support services.

We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a trauma informed organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• communicating and promoting vacancies
• offering an interview to disabled people
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live in the UK.

As an organisation we do not offer visa sponsorships. Only applicants with existing right to work in the UK will be considered.

Relevant roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from Disclosure and barring service (DBS).

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

At Trident Group, we only consider agency introductions where a signed agreement is in place, and where the agency has been specifically contacted by a member of our People & Culture Team. We do not accept responsibility for any fees related to unsolicited or speculative CV submissions made directly to our employees or outside of the above.