Document Actions
Effective keyworking
Keyworking is essentially a tool for enabling a person to gain a better quality of life. This day will enable participants to explore and understand the skills involved in helping someone to change within the framework and boundaries of keyworking.
This course is available through Homeless Link’s short course programme and can be delivered direct to your organisation as in-house training . If you feel that a currently unscheduled or unlisted course would meet a training need in your region please email training@homelesslink.org.uk with full details.
Who is this course for?
Anyone who has a specific role as the key worker of, or is responsible for on-going work with, a homeless person. For example: support worker keyworker, project worker, and day centre worker
What does this course cover?
Keyworking is essentially a tool for enabling a person to gain a better quality of life. This involves helping a person to understand what gets in their way and to change. Some of the changes are practical while others are about gaining confidence, or coping with difficult situations. This can be very demanding of key workers. They have to respond to a very wide range of needs and tailor their style to the individual in the context of the work of the organisation they work for. This training is aimed at helping the keyworker have skills and models for helping them to do that work.
This day will enable participants to explore and understand the skills involved in helping someone to change within the framework and boundaries of keyworking.
You will explore
- the skills and boundaries required in a keyworking session and apply that to the work of their own agency
- explore the nature and work of a keyworking session or interview, including working with beginnings and endings
- Look at models of appropriate assessing, goal setting and care planning and place keyworking in the context of the need to provide records
- practise skills in relation to a model of understanding a person’s difficulties
- explore interagency work and consider when to refer on and good practice.