Work & Skills Specialist

2 months ago


Farringdon, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

This Role: Work & Skills Specialist

Location: London

Contract Basis: 12 Month Fixed Term Maternity Cover

Salary: £40,915 based on a 37.5hr working week.

Are you passionate about tackling work and skills issues and creating solutions for residents?

This role will provide comprehensive employment support to MTVH residents through 1-1 and group based interventions. Support will include addressing entry barriers to the labour market, maximising professional development for people who are in work, creating learning and career pathways to address skills gaps and foster career growth and offering early targeted interventions for customers facing complex barriers to work.

The Work and Skills Specialist will link with frontline teams across MTVH to design and deliver work and skills pathways, identify and support residents through those pathways and evaluate the success of these initiatives.

What you'll need to succeed

Strong track record of delivering work and skills support with a track record of supporting people into work or improved skills.
Highly organised with strong interpersonal skills
Experience of using coaching and training techniques to engage and empower service users
Innovation and ability to continuously improve service outcomes.
Experience of delivering hard targets and working within a performance driven environment.
Proven experience of delivering a coordinated holistic service with a good working knowledge of the issues affecting those who are in in-work poverty or not working.
Experience of identifying, developing and managing strong partnerships.
IAG Level 4 Qualification desirable.
Experience of using employability systems and/or Customer Relationship Management systems.
To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers we will complete a Enhanced background check with the Disclosure and Barring service, once an offer of employment is made. As standard you will be added to the DBS updating service with a new check being carried out on a 3 yearly basis. The cost of a DBS application will be paid for by the organisation.

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What?s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
Cycle2work scheme
Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

Gender
Ethnicity
LGBTQ+
Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment



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