Community Outreach Worker
Who are we…
Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves.
We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report
here to read more about the important work that we have done.
About the role…
Humankind’s Community Diversion service is funded by the Northumbria Violence Reduction Unit supporting their vison to ensure:
“Northumbria is a place where individuals, families and communities thrive, making the most of opportunities to live, learn and work free from the fear of violence.”
Working across the Northumbria Police Force areas, this exciting new service will support individuals accessing the Integrated Offender Management Scheme, and Children and Young People aged 10 - 17 years who are vulnerable and at risk or involved in serious violent crime and their immediate family.
Summary of role
Humankind’s Community Outreach Workers will deliver wrap around’ support to individuals accessing the IOM scheme and motivate and encourage individuals to work with specialist services to make positive changes, and reduce the likelihood of reoffending.
Workers will also support the Youth Violence Intervention Service on a rota system once every 5 weeks working within the Newcastle RVI and Sunderland Royal Hospital, to engage young people admitted to emergency departments linked to violence.
We have three roles Available, and these will be hybrid working, including a base site and within the locality assigned. Localities for these roles are: Newcastle/Gateshead, South Tyneside/Sunderland, North Tyneside/Northumberland.
Proposed date for interviews: Week commencing 17th April
Please read the full Job Description and Person Specification prior to applying for this position.
For full person specifications and job details, please visit
this link.
What can Humankind offer you…
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Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
Annual leave purchase scheme
Enhanced occupational sick pay
%
Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
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Blue light card discount
Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses
Work-life balance- flexible working and family friendly policies
️ Happy, Healthy You! – our wellbeing offers for our workforce
Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks
If you feel that you would fit with our values & ethos, are passionate about supporting people, but maybe don’t feel you have the experience required, talk to us about your transferrable skills. For the right people, we can provide development to help you to realise your potential.
We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit. If you require support with your application or would like to request a paper application, please contact the Recruitment Team on 01325 731 160, alternatively you can email us at
people.recruitment@humankindcharity.org.uk
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