Employability and Skills Team Leader

Get Set UK; Burnley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days' annual leave

Health and wellbeing support

Employee Assistance Programme

Workplace pension

Share buy scheme

IncentFit benefits

Discounts on lifestyle services

Job summary

Get Set UK is seeking an Employability & Skills Team Leader to lead a team of Employment Advisors and own delivery outcomes. You will oversee coaching, performance conversations, and the use of data to improve employability outcomes for participants.

The role requires hands-on management, a track record in target-driven environments, and experience in employability or regulated/public funded services. You will work with partners to ensure high standards and compliance.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in employability or skills.
• Experience managing a team in a target-driven environment with measurable results.
• Evidence of coaching, setting expectations and addressing underperformance.
• Ability to read KPIs/MI and translate into action.
• Experience in employability, skills or a regulated/public funded service.
• Balancing participant needs with performance, quality and commercial priorities.
• Demonstrated reliability and delivering high standards.
• Experience delivering outcomes, targets, tasks or objectives.
• Ability to explain employment history including gaps in the last five years.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, CRM or similar systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Employment Advisors and be accountable for people, performance, quality and compliance.
• Coach the team and use data to improve delivery and outcomes.
• Monitor and address underperformance; drive delivery against targets and KPIs.
• Interact with employers, partners and service providers to support continuous improvement.
• Ensure accurate records, safeguarding and contractual compliance across the service.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Performance coaching

Data interpretation

Employability experience

Public funded / regulated service

Quality & compliance

Communication of employment history

Tools

CRM systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

Lead the team. Own the outcomes. You will lead a team of Employment Advisors helping people overcome barriers and move into sustainable employment.

Employability & Skills Team Leader

Lead the team. Own the outcomes. You will lead a team of Employment Advisors helping people overcome barriers and move into sustainable employment. This is hands-on operational management with clear accountability for people, performance, quality and compliance. You will coach your team, use data to understand what is working, address underperformance and keep delivery focused on employment outcomes.

Before you apply: the essentials

To be considered, your CV and application must clearly demonstrate:

• Previous leadership experience within employability or skills.
• Experience leading or managing a team in a target-driven environment, with evidence of measurable team results.
• Evidence of managing individual and team performance, including coaching, setting expectations and addressing underperformance.
• Confidence interpreting performance data, KPIs or management information and turning it into practical action.
• Experience working within employability, skills or another regulated, or public funded service.
• Evidence of balancing participant needs with performance, quality and commercial priorities.
• Evidence of commitment, reliability and consistently delivering high standards of work.
• Evidence of delivering outcomes, targets, tasks, projects or agreed objectives.
• Ability to explain recent employment history clearly, including gaps or short-term roles during the previous five years.
• Confident working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, CRM or similar systems, with ability to learn other digital systems.

Your CV should show your management impact, not simply list management duties. Tell us about the team you led, targets or KPIs you owned, performance issues you addressed and the measurable results you achieved.

The real job

Your Employment Advisors support people who may face significant barriers to work through vocational profiling, action planning, CV and application support, job searching and interview preparation. Your job is to make sure that work produces results. You will set expectations, monitor individual and team performance, hold regular coaching and performance conversations and intervene when delivery moves off track. When somebody is struggling, you will understand why, support improvement and hold them accountable for agreed actions. You will use performance data to identify trends, risks and opportunities rather than waiting for problems to become established. You will also oversee the quality of participant support, accurate records, data integrity, safeguarding and contractual compliance. You will work with employers, partners, training providers and other stakeholders and contribute to continuous improvement across the service.

What Success Looks Like

Your team understands its targets and takes ownership of achieving them. Advisors receive useful coaching, strong performance is recognised and underperformance is addressed. Participant support is purposeful and leads towards employment outcomes. Records are accurate, compliance standards are maintained and performance information leads to action. You create a culture where people can ask for support while understanding that accountability and high standards remain part of the job.

The working reality

This is not a passive management role. You will balance people leadership with contractual KPIs, employment outcomes, quality, compliance, safeguarding and day-to-day operational pressures. There will be difficult conversations. Targets can be missed, priorities can compete and people can underperform. You need the judgement to know when to coach, when to challenge and when firmer performance management is required.

What You Get

• 25 days' annual leave, increasing with service.
• Vitality health and wellbeing support, including GP services, mental health support and physiotherapy.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, including up to six counselling sessions a year and legal, financial and debt guidance.
• Workplace pension, with salary sacrifice available subject to eligibility and scheme rules.
• Share buy scheme.
• Up to £360 a year through IncentFit for eligible activities.
• Wellbeing, retail, fitness, travel and mobile discounts, including 20% off eligible EE mobile plans.

About Get Set UK

Get Set UK delivers employment, skills, apprenticeships, health and justice services, helping people overcome barriers and progress towards meaningful, sustainable employment. We are part of Palladium, a global impact organisation with more than 60 years' experience delivering programmes and solutions internationally. Our values are Be Ambitious, Be Proud, Be Considerate, Be Inspiring and Own It, and they shape how we work with colleagues, participants and partners.

Eligibility and checks

You must have the full right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this role. Employment is subject to satisfactory references, right-to-work and safeguarding checks, a DBS check at the appropriate level where required for the role. Get Set UK is a Disability Confident and Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment.

Additional Information

We reserve the right to close applications early, so we encourage early applications. Get Set UK is a Disability Confident and Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals and are committed to supporting physical and mental wellbeing at work. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process. This role is subject to satisfactory recruitment checks and a commitment to safeguarding learners and clients. Get Set UK does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies.