Employment Specialist SEQF Hounslow

Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

Working with clients, health professionals, service providers, and employers, Supported Employment Specialists ensure that a person’s journey into employment along with improved social inclusion and wellbeing, is as smooth as possible. You will support individuals with a disability, learning disability, or autism to secure sustainable paid employment aligned with their preferences.

Your role involves delivering the Supported Employment approach, underpinned by the Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF), for which full training will be provided. This includes offering person-centred advice and guidance to clients while building positive relationships with local employers to create suitable employment opportunities. This is a target driven role.

As an SEQF Employment Specialist, you must be an effective communicator, passionate about supporting disabled people, and committed to transforming lives through sustainable employment solutions. You will work with people on their individual employment journey from vocational profiling to the point where they no longer require face to face in work support. The six key stages on a typical journey are:

• outreach/referral;
• vocational profiling;
• action planning;
• job search activities (including working on a one-to-one basis with employers to match people with appropriate employment);
• job placement, job coaching and coordinating support whilst in employment;
• managing withdrawal of support as the in-work support is no longer required by the client.

You will be based in Hounslow.

As an employee of Shaw Trust, you will have access to the following benefits:

• 25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years’ service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday;
• 2 days paid volunteering leave each year;
• An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months;
• Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate;
• Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters’ levels qualifications, and management development programmes;
• Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks;
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan;
• Opportunity to request flexible working from day one.

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion.

If you have accessibility requirements and/or would like further information about the role, please contact: Resourcing@shaw-trust.org.uk