Job Title: Key Worker
Salary: £26,000 per year (If full time)
Location: Carney’s Community Centre, 30 Petworth St, Battersea, SW11 4QW, plus some work within the local community of Battersea
Responsible to: Senior Key Worker
Responsible for: Caseload of participants for Key Work
Contract: This is a 1 year contract subject to a 3 month probationary period
Hours: Part Time or Full Time (15 – 37.5 hours) available, usually Monday to Friday, with some evening and weekend flexibility required
DBS: This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS check
To apply: Email your CV and application form to
hannah.tulloch@carneyscommunity.orgRole Overview
Your role will be to provide intensive individual support and mentoring to a caseload of participants, primarily aged 11-17 and at risk of offending or re-offending. You will encourage and support them to participate in activities at Carney’s Community and to access external services and support they may need to help them reach their full potential.You will be part of the staff team at Carney’s Community and work closely with the Senior Key Worker. You will develop effective one-to-one working relationships with the participants in your caseload, their families/carers and other statutory or support services they are already connected with. You will create a personal development plan with the participants to identify their goals and barriers to achieving them and support them to work towards these goals and overcome barriers. Keeping in regular contact with the participants, you will encourage them to take part in positive constructive activities, in particular those taking place at our centre. You will support and advocate for the young person at meetings with statutory services including schools, youth justice services and social services. You will regularly review each participant’s progress, recording this on our online monitoring system.
About Us
Carney’s Community is a charity that exists to support vulnerable and excluded young people in and around Wandsworth, enabling them to reach their full potential. We work with young people who face poverty, are in the care system, families misusing substances, domestic abuse, those impacted by trauma and many who have been excluded from school or involved in the criminal justice system. Carney’s works differently by providing long term consistent support, unlike much statutory provision. We provide a safe space and engage young people in positive activities including boxing, skills workshops, social activities, mentoring and one to one intensive key work. All of which offers long-term, unprejudiced, unconditional support with empathy.
We aim to build the self-discipline, self-esteem, confidence and employability of young people, as we believe this is key to reducing offending and anti-social behaviour and enabling disadvantaged young people to reach their full potential. By focusing on strengths and learning from each other, our young people can improve not only their future opportunities, but also those of their local communities.
Duties and responsibilities
Individual work with participants