Job Description
Do you have extensive experience and understanding of working with children and young people - including the crucial ability to build and maintain trusting relationships with young people and parents/carers who may have had previous negative experiences of services? If so, St Giles has the ideal challenge for you: as a Caseworker on our pioneering SOS project. Here we work with both victims and perpetrators of serious youth violence and other gang related offences, helping clients to be safe, move away from offending and take positive choices. About St Giles Trust An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others. About this key role Your role will be to provide young person centred holistic support - including everything from helping clients to understand their own behaviour and its consequences, and promoting change, to helping clients'' families to support them and providing practical help with attending appointments, education, training and employment options, housing, benefits, debt and other aspects of day-to-day living. Working flexibly within the community and within identified office spaces within London, you''ll be building effective and engaging relationships ..... full job details .....