Lead Worker

Job Title: Lead Worker

Location: Coventry

Contract Type: Full-Time, Temporary to Permanent

Hours: 37.5 Hours per week - Monday - Friday

Start Date: ASAP

Industry: Social Care - Homelessness

Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of young people? Do you have the skills and resilience to support them through complex challenges and empower them toward independence? We're looking for a Lead Worker who will provide holistic, person-centred support to young people with multiple needs.

Key Responsibilities of a Lead Worker

• Deliver outreach-based, holistic risk and needs assessments in the community.
• Develop and implement tailored support and risk management plans using tools like the Outcome Star.
• Take a non-judgemental, person-centred approach, using diverse methods to promote engagement.
• Help young people sustain tenancies, access housing, and manage their lives more independently.
• Encourage participation in education, apprenticeships, training, and volunteering.
• Support young people to rebuild family and social networks, including mediation when necessary.
• Provide regular one-on-one support sessions, including crisis response and safeguarding.
• Promote participation in service development and ensure young people are active in their own support planning.
• Facilitate access to statutory and non-statutory services (e.g. health, mental health, substance misuse).
• Advocate for young people on matters like housing, benefits, and rights.
• Help maximise income through benefits, grants, budgeting, and life skills coaching (e.g. cooking, shopping).
• Act as a key link between young people and other services for a coordinated care approach.

Purpose of the Role

• Deliver flexible, person-centred support and settlement assistance to young people with complex needs.
• Enable young people to maintain stable accommodation and achieve improved health and well being outcomes.
• Provide guidance to navigate services including health care, substance misuse recovery, education, and employment.

Requirements for a Lead Worker

• Experience working with vulnerable young people or similar client groups.
• Worked as a Lead Worker or in a similar position before
• A car driver is not essential but highly desired, will be outreach in the community of Coventry
• Knowledge of safeguarding, trauma-informed practice, and youth development.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust and rapport.
• Ability to work flexibly, including occasional evenings or crisis response when needed.

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to temporary vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer, job suitability are assessed on merit in accordance with their skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.