Permanent, Part Time 21 hrs per week
Childrens & Young Person Caseworker
£25,240 - £27,660 (Pro rata)
SWACA is recruiting for a Children’s and Young Persons Caseworker, based at our offices in Knowsley Road Bootle. Please download and read the job description and person specification and if you feel you meet the criteria, then complete an application form and send to recruitment@swaca.com.
A little bit about the role:
To carry out direct work and offer appropriate services to children and young people aged 5 – 18 years.
Key Responsibilities
- To make initial and ongoing assessments of the needs of children / young people experiencing, or affected by, domestic abuse.
- To provide support needed to the child / young person and to refer to other relevant support services as appropriate, for example regarding Safeguarding children.
- To ensure at all stages that the child / young person’s needs are prioritised and responded to with understanding.
- To ensure that service, and child / young person, outcomes are identified and met and can be demonstrated to the referral agency, parent / carer, school, and funding provider.
- To advocate and liaise on behalf of the child / young person, with statutory and other agencies, should this be required.
- To act in a consultancy / advisory capacity for external agencies.
- To engage children / young people in identifying and designing appropriate services.
- To hold and manage a varied and fluctuating caseload in accordance with agency guidance, policies, and procedures.
- To maintain accurate, up to date and relevant case notes on both the Case Management and Local Authority system.
- To provide (time-limited) assistance to SWACA in the delivery of the Sefton Domestic Abuse Helpline, as part of a wider SWACA staff rota supporting the SWACA Duty Officer, (as Helpline Lead).
- To assist, support and supervise volunteers and students working in the agency.
- To contribute to the development of the service and take responsibility for personal development through active engagement in supervision, team meetings, training, board meetings and agency events, as required.
- To collect and submit appropriate data that may be required by the SWACA or by external agencies.
- To promote the interests of the Charity by supporting fundraising and public relation events.
- Other similar duties may be allocated from time to time, appropriate to the general character of the post.
- It is a requirement of the post that occasional evening and weekend work is undertaken for which time in lieu will be authorised.
Important dates
Closing Date
September 15, 2023Shortlisting
w/c 18/09/2023Interviews
w/c 22/09/2023Permanent, Full-time 35 hours per week
Learning Development / Training Officer
£27,500 to £29,500 (dependent on experience)
SWACA is recruiting for a Learning & Development Officer, based at our offices in Knowsley Road Bootle. Please download and read the job description and person specification and if you feel you meet the criteria, then complete an application form and send to recruitment@swaca.com.
A little about the role...
To prepare, quality assure, and facilitate / deliver, high quality domestic abuse-related learning development and training opportunities for multi-agency partners operating within the borough of Sefton. To oversee SWACA’s internal learning development / Continuing Professional Development (CPD) strategy and approach.
Key Responsibilities
- To identify, coordinate, create and facilitate / deliver domestic abuse related learning development and training activities and programmes for multi-agency professionals working with communities in Sefton.
- To build, and maintain, relationships with key stakeholders, service users, and trainers / facilitators.
- To enable access, through effective promotional activities, to SWACA’s learning development / training offer, for all key multi-agency stakeholders.
- To evaluate the quality and impact of the SWACA learning development / training offer, by capturing and analysing data, and feedback, gathered, informing developments and improvements.
- To evaluate the quality and impact of the SWACA learning development / training offer, by capturing and analysing data, and feedback, gathered, informing developments and improvements.
- To provide logistical support for all SWACA-led learning development / training activities and programmes.
- To identify (own) learning development and training needs and agree with the Chief Executive appropriate learning development activities to be undertaken.
- To maintain an awareness of SWACA’s operating environment, including legislative developments, social trends and local issues, which inform the learning development / training offer.
- To maintain an awareness of SWACA’s operating environment, including legislative developments, social trends and local issues, which inform the learning development / training offer.
- To promote the interests of the organisation at all times.
- Other similar duties may be allocated from time to time, appropriate to the general character of the post.
- It is a requirement of the post that some evening work is undertaken for which time in lieu will be authorised.
