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Employment Support Specialists (Surrey Choices)

Salary: £22,410 - £23,790 per annum
Post: Various posts, Full-time and part-time
Locations: Ashford, Surrey (1 post); Redhill, Surrey (1 post) (all postholders may be required to travel across the county)

Do you have the passion and drive to support disabled people to reach their employment aspirations?

Do you share our Core Values?

We want to ensure people with disabilities have opportunities to achieve the same as everyone else. Our role is to provide creative and sustainable support which enables people to live active and healthy lives in their local communities in ways that they choose. Our Core Values guide how we work and inform our decision making. As an organisation we are in a good place, we have a great team, and we are excited about our plans for the future.

We are currently looking for enthusiastic and committed individuals to join us as Employment Support Specialists to assist people to reach their goals of finding and keeping a job and to make a real difference to someone’s life.

IAPT Employment Advisers (Status Employment)

Salary: £28,000 pro rata
Posts: 2 full-time posts, 1 part-time post. Contract role funded until March 2022
Location: Lambeth

Are you interested in supporting people who have, or are recovering from, mental health challenges; experiencing barriers affecting their ability to move towards, or stay in, paid employment? Do you have what it takes to join a team of individuals that prides themselves on professionalism, values and hard work to make a real difference to people's lives?

Status Employment are looking for IAPT Employment Avisors to start work as soon as possible. A full-time role is 35 hours a week over 5 days to join our established team and part time hours to be discussed. Currently these positions are remote working. In future, we hope this will be a mixture of working in our Lambeth offices as well as working remotely.

Programme Specialist (Project Search)

We are hiring! We are delighted to share that we are looking for a Programme Specialist for Northern England.

The exciting role will involve identifying opportunities to develop and grow DFN Project SEARCH programmes across Northern England whilst supporting existing sites in this region, this is with the aim of expanding the programme and growing access to DFN Project SEARCH programmes.

The Programme Specialist will be required to develop strategies to support their operational programmes to be high aiming and high achieving in terms of job outcomes for this talent pool of young adults, whilst also developing strong partnerships with colleagues throughout their area.

The ideal candidate will be educated to a degree level or relevant professional qualification, and have held a senior position in a business, the education sector, the supported employment sector or the local authority sector.

They will also bring knowledge of English regulation and funding arrangements as they relate to education, supported employment and Access to Work, and an understanding of the jobs market and employability challenges faced by young people with SEND.

Curriculum Lead (bemix)

Salary: Negotiable, with consideration to skills and past experience + contributory pension scheme.
Post: Full-time permanent contract in line with National standard teacher hours and working days.
Location: Working across our bases in Medway, Swale and Gravesham in Kent.

The successful postholder will join us at an exciting point in our development, growth and quality improvement. You will lead on education in a team that combines teaching staff with supported employment specialists and develop the quality of the curriculum, including Supported Internships and a new Preparation For Employment programme.

A Supported Internship is a powerful model of an education and employment programme that is proven to be effective at overcoming the many barriers young people with learning disabilities and/or autism face with employment. Learning takes place in Job Club, Social Enterprise Days and in workplaces as well as in Functional Skills lessons. We have grown from our first cohort of 12 young people in 2017 to 50 today, with plans to grow further in response to local need. Our ultimate goal is to inspire, enable and support more young people with learning difficulties and/or autism to achieve a job and career.

Head of Supported Employment (SeeAbility)

Salary: £50,000 per annum
Post: Permanent
Location: Open to flexible working options, with an expectation to base some days at the central office in Epsom, Surrey.

In 2020, SeeAbility launched its first supported employment programme with the aim of supporting people with learning disabilities, autism and sight loss to secure and retain work that matches their talents and meets their career ambitions.

Today, as our communities begin to open again in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has never been a more important time to ensure that people with disabilities have the same opportunity as everyone else to secure jobs and build careers, especially as the nature of work and workplaces evolves.

We’re now looking for a Head of Supported Employment who will embrace this changing landscape and thrive in a complex role to lead and grow our ambitious programme.

Careers Leader (Mencap)

Salary: £27,724 + excellent benefits & training
Post: Permanent, full-time
Location: Working from home

Mencap are recruiting for a new and exciting role of Careers Leader to join our Lifestyles and Work team. This is a full time (37.5 hrs per week) permanent role and it will be home based with national travel.

The role of Careers Leader is to develop and implement Mencap’s Careers Programme across each of Mencap’s employment services and to ensure we meet consistent high standards and the eight Gatsby Benchmarks. You will take accountability for the delivery of Mencap’s programme of Careers Education, Information and Advice & Guidance (CEIAG) within our overall education strategy.

You will use your experience, knowledge, skills and Level 6 Career Guidance and Development qualification to give high quality careers advice to learners and ensure that delivery teams are equipped with the knowledge and ability to deliver impartial and consistent CEIAG to our learners.

We are in the position to support the successful candidate in obtaining the Level 6 CDI Certificate in Careers Leadership if you do not have this qualification already.

At Mencap, we value a diverse and inclusive workplace and we intentionally plan for the success of our colleagues in everything we do. We welcome applications from everyone, so come as you are and join us. Together we are Mencap!

Job Coach (my AFK)

Salary: Negotiable dependent on experience, including London weighting
Post: Maternity cover for 1 year, full-time
Location: North London

my AFK are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Job Coach to support our young people aged 18+ with learning disabilities to progress towards and into employment. The role will involve working with individuals, assessing their employability skills; liaising with employers and brokering new opportunities for supported employment, volunteering and work placements; and providing specialist one to one coaching to enable young people to progress towards their own goals and objectives.

See the attached Job Description for more details.

Employment Development Officers (North Northamptonshire CC)

Salary: £29,998 per year
Posts: Full-time
Locations: Corby and Northampton (covering the whole of Northamptonshire – countywide travelling)

We are looking for a creative and solution focussed individual to deliver supported employment across Northamptonshire as part of our Employment & Disability Service (EADS).

You will be flexible, hardworking, organised and committed to supporting and empowering job seekers to overcome barriers to employment. You may find knowledge and working experience of recruitment and the welfare to work system advantageous within this role.

You will be required to represent EADS at a variety of events to network with professionals and employers to increase county based opportunities for the clients we exist to support.

The ideal candidate will need to be in possession of a full driving licence to be able to travel freely between different locations (mileage allowance is paid).

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