Employment Specialist SEQF in London

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 well-being, 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-centered advice and guidance to clients while building positive relationships with local employers to create suitable employment opportunities. This is a target driven role. These targets are derived from contract obligations of: Starts On Programme, Job Entries, Job Retention, compliance to Fidelity delivery model (SEQF).

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.

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. For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an ecosystem of purpose‑led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centered on opportunity for all.

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 apprenticeship and masters' level qualifications, and management development programmes
• Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Neurodiversity Peer Support Network, Women's Network, Managing Network, Menopause Network Group)
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan
• Opportunity to request flexible working from day one

We are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK. We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government's Access to Work scheme. Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation.

Equality and Diversity:

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.