Key Worker
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £27,196 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2024 |
| Location: | North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, DL2 |
| Company: | Education Development Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 52966384 |
Summary
About the role
Key Worker
Location: North Yorkshire area based (Hybrid)
Salary: £27,196 per annum FTE (based on 37 hours per week)
This is a full time fixed term contract until March 2025
Job Purpose
The Key Worker plays a pivotal role in this programme, working closely with individuals and households facing barriers to employment. The primary purpose of this role is to provide comprehensive support, guidance, and advocacy to empower participants in overcoming health-related challenges and facilitate their journey towards sustainable employment. The Key Worker will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure a holistic and person-centred approach, ultimately enhancing the overall well-being and employability of our participants.
Deliver employability support, which may include information, advice and guidance, to economically inactive participants within the North Yorkshire region.
Provide face-to-face and remote employability support to adult economically inactive and employed participants in a range of settings, within the context of the contract, supporting them to move closer to or into the labour market.
The successful candidate must be prepared to travel within the region. Key Workers may be required to work in a range of locations including community venues and employers’ premises. The work may involve working in more than one location and there will be travel involved as part of the job. It may be necessary to work outside normal office hours. This job description needs to be considered in the context of a developing and evolving area of service delivery and therefore the duties described above will need to be adapted to meet the needs of the project.
Person Specification:
Knowledge
Essential:
- Knowledge of local labour markets and barriers to employment
- Knowledge of customer service and relationship management
- Understanding of the local area and factors contributing to the local labour market
- Have an understanding of and a commitment to quality
- Have a good knowledge of employment, training and personal development support opportunities that are available In the local community
Experience
Essential:
- Recent experience of working with adults in a related field, ideally determining need and supporting economically inactive participant choices
- Experience of working in a target driven environment
A full list of job objectives and requirements can be found in the JD.
Deadline for applications: 22 May 2024
Interviews to take place via Microsoft Teams week commencing 27 May 2024
How to apply:
To be considered for this vacancy, applicants are required to complete and submit a fully completed application form through our website.
At EDT we pride ourselves on creating an environment that supports a healthy work life balance for all our staff. We provide policies that encourage flexible working around individual needs. We offer a range of benefits including a generous holiday allowance (30 days plus bank holidays FTE) , company pension scheme and additional voluntary money saving benefits.
Education Development Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults whom we work with and come into contact with around the world. All applicants are subject to thorough screening and successful candidates are subject to the relevant level of criminal record checks with national police authorities or the UK’s Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This will be at minimum a basic DBS check.
At Education Development Trust, we strive to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and knows they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks. We’re committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Education Development Trust an inclusive place to work. If you have specific requirements or adjustments, please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.
IND1
Notes/Brief for Recruitment Team:
We are seeking individuals across the following keyskill/experience areas:
- Expertise supporting and motivating young people, adults and family units to plan and pursue positive routes to progression
- Experience of providing and coordinating assistance and guidance to persons with disabilities and barriers to work and training
- Experience in the provision of high-quality stakeholder engagement/management and effective liaison with a wide range of stakeholders, including government, employers, training providers and support services
- The promotion and coordination of health and wellbeing activities and support
- The mapping and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, identifying gaps in support and working collaboratively to formulate ideas/solutions
- Expertise in data analysis, generation of reports and administration
- Expertise in the interpretation and application of compliance and quality regulations and frameworks
- Experience of managing large-scale, complex and target driven contracts
- Experience of strategic leadership, managing multiple stakeholders to achieve collective aims in a supportive, efficient, and informed manner
About the organisation
Education Development Trust has first-rate credentials in providing services that bridge the gap between education, training and employment. We have been a leading careers service provider in the UK for over 20 years and have a successful track record of managing programmes delivering careers, employment and skills support.
To find out more about the careers service at Education Development Trust, please click here.
Please Click here to see our Annual Impact Review for 2022/2023, which highlights the ways in which our work has impacted lives around the world – and the progress we have made since 2021/2022.
Key Worker
Location: North Yorkshire area based (Hybrid)
Salary: £27,196 per annum FTE (based on 37 hours per week)
This is a full time fixed term contract until March 2025
Job Purpose
The Key Worker plays a pivotal role in this programme, working closely with individuals and households facing barriers to employment. The primary purpose of this role is to provide comprehensive support, guidance, and advocacy to empower participants in overcoming health-related challenges and facilitate their journey towards sustainable employment. The Key Worker will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure a holistic and person-centred approach, ultimately enhancing the overall well-being and employability of our participants.
Deliver employability support, which may include information, advice and guidance, to economically inactive participants within the North Yorkshire region.
Provide face-to-face and remote employability support to adult economically inactive and employed participants in a range of settings, within the context of the contract, supporting them to move closer to or into the labour market.
The successful candidate must be prepared to travel within the region. Key Workers may be required to work in a range of locations including community venues and employers’ premises. The work may involve working in more than one location and there will be travel involved as part of the job. It may be necessary to work outside normal office hours. This job description needs to be considered in the context of a developing and evolving area of service delivery and therefore the duties described above will need to be adapted to meet the needs of the project.
Person Specification:
Knowledge
Essential:
- Knowledge of local labour markets and barriers to employment
- Knowledge of customer service and relationship management
- Understanding of the local area and factors contributing to the local labour market
- Have an understanding of and a commitment to quality
- Have a good knowledge of employment, training and personal development support opportunities that are available In the local community
Experience
Essential:
- Recent experience of working with adults in a related field, ideally determining need and supporting economically inactive participant choices
- Experience of working in a target driven environment
A full list of job objectives and requirements can be found in the JD.
Deadline for applications: 22 May 2024
Interviews to take place via Microsoft Teams week commencing 27 May 2024
How to apply:
To be considered for this vacancy, applicants are required to complete and submit a fully completed application form through our website.
At EDT we pride ourselves on creating an environment that supports a healthy work life balance for all our staff. We provide policies that encourage flexible working around individual needs. We offer a range of benefits including a generous holiday allowance (30 days plus bank holidays FTE) , company pension scheme and additional voluntary money saving benefits.
Education Development Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults whom we work with and come into contact with around the world. All applicants are subject to thorough screening and successful candidates are subject to the relevant level of criminal record checks with national police authorities or the UK’s Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This will be at minimum a basic DBS check.
At Education Development Trust, we strive to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and knows they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks. We’re committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Education Development Trust an inclusive place to work. If you have specific requirements or adjustments, please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.
IND1
Notes/Brief for Recruitment Team:
We are seeking individuals across the following keyskill/experience areas:
- Expertise supporting and motivating young people, adults and family units to plan and pursue positive routes to progression
- Experience of providing and coordinating assistance and guidance to persons with disabilities and barriers to work and training
- Experience in the provision of high-quality stakeholder engagement/management and effective liaison with a wide range of stakeholders, including government, employers, training providers and support services
- The promotion and coordination of health and wellbeing activities and support
- The mapping and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, identifying gaps in support and working collaboratively to formulate ideas/solutions
- Expertise in data analysis, generation of reports and administration
- Expertise in the interpretation and application of compliance and quality regulations and frameworks
- Experience of managing large-scale, complex and target driven contracts
- Experience of strategic leadership, managing multiple stakeholders to achieve collective aims in a supportive, efficient, and informed manner
About the organisation
Education Development Trust has first-rate credentials in providing services that bridge the gap between education, training and employment. We have been a leading careers service provider in the UK for over 20 years and have a successful track record of managing programmes delivering careers, employment and skills support.
To find out more about the careers service at Education Development Trust, please click here.
Please Click here to see our Annual Impact Review for 2022/2023, which highlights the ways in which our work has impacted lives around the world – and the progress we have made since 2021/2022.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.