Employment & Skills Trainer

80 Reed in Partnership Ltd; Selby; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Reed Pension Scheme

Management & Leadership training

Professional & Personal Development

Bi-annual pay reviews

Job summary

Reed in Partnership is seeking an Employment and Skills Trainer to support adults on the Restart Scheme, delivering high-quality employability training and CV/interview coaching across Selby and Harrogate.

You will work with Employment Advisers to tailor courses to participant needs, assess progress, and help learners gain confidence and sustainable employment opportunities.

Qualifications

• Ability to work to strict targets and with people from various backgrounds.
• Experience of preparing and delivering training courses.
• Background in welfare-to-work or related sector.
• GCSE English Language at grade B or Level 2 literacy.
• Minimum of 2 A-Levels or Level 3 Diploma.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of training delivery.
• Prepare and deliver high-quality employability training sessions (CV writing, interview skills, job goals).
• Maintain professional training environment and course materials.
• Promote courses to stakeholders to enhance submissions.
• Assess participant progress and provide feedback to Employment Advisers.
• Report attendance and achievements accurately.
• Collaborate with Advisers to identify suitable courses for participants.

Skills

Target-driven

Communication skills

Welfare-to-work experience

Training delivery

Multi-background sensitivity

Travel flexibility

Education

2 A-Levels or Level 3 Diploma

GCSE English (Grade B)

Level 2 Literacy

Job description

Reed in Partnership has been delivering public services since 1998. We are a British, family-owned company, whose mission has always been to positively transform people and their communities. This is reflected in our services, which we deliver to help people from all backgrounds and circumstances to change their lives for the better.

Pay Range

£28,000 to £29,000

Job Description

Are you passionate about making a difference and helping others? Would you like to work in a Learning and Development role and make a positive impact on people and their communities? Then consider the position of Employment and Skills Trainer at Reed in Partnership! This role is expected to cover both Selby and Harrogate offices. Please note, internal applications for this role close on 19/10/2026.

Who we are

Reed's Employability Division aims to positively transform lives by helping individuals who are unemployed, economically inactive, or facing challenges such as health conditions, disabilities, or caring responsibilities to find sustainable employment. Through a wide range of tailored support services including one-to-one careers guidance, CV writing, interview preparation, and skills training, we have supported over 250,000 people on their journey into work. Our Restart Scheme, funded by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), focuses specifically on supporting the long-term unemployed who are referred by their local Job Centre Plus. We provide them with up to 12 months of personalised support to enter or re-enter the workforce.

What is the role about?

Our Employment and Skills Trainers are an integral part of our employability programmes. The main purpose of this role is to improve the opportunities of adult jobseekers who access our Restart Scheme by coaching, training and upskilling them in order to boost their confidence, enhance their employability, and secure meaningful employment.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Taking Ownership
• Preparing and delivering high-quality employability training sessions to participants such as CV writing, interview skills, and identifying job goals
• Maintaining a professional training environment classroom and course materials
• Promoting courses to internal and external stakeholders to enhance submissions
• Being Fair, Open, and Honest
• Assessing and evaluating participant progress and providing performance feedback to their Employment Advisers
• Accurately reporting participant attendance and achievements
• Working Together
• Collaborate with Employment Advisers to identify suitable courses for participants relevant to their needs

What’s in it for you?

A generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found Here

The Employment & Skills Trainer role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by building people's confidence and skills that they need to start working. At Reed in Partnership, our values—Fair, Open & Honest, Take Ownership, and Work Together—guide everything we do. Join us in delivering services that make a real difference.

Required qualifications

• Ability to work to strict targets and with people from various backgrounds
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Experience of working in the welfare-to-work or any other similar relevant sector
• Background in preparing and delivering training courses
• A minimum of 2 A-Levels or an equivalent Level 3 Diploma.
• GCSE English Language at a minimum of a Grade B (or equivalent Level 2 qualification).
• OR achievement of a Level 2 in Literacy Assessment at interview stage
• OR International Equivalents.

Desirable qualifications

• Recognised Teaching qualification such as PTTLS or PGCE
• Ability to empathise with our members and motivate them
• Passion for delivering excellent job and making long- term positive changes for our members
• Resilience, creativity and adaptability
• Willingness to travel locally (e.g. to deliver training/courses/meet Learners/Employers)
• Fluency in a second language

Equal opportunity statement

We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

Flexible working arrangements

Whilst some roles are advertised as Full‑Time we may be able to consider applicants who are looking to work on a Part‑Time basis.

Additional information

Please note our ability to accommodate flexible working arrangements will vary from role to role, dependent on business requirements. We have an on-going strategic priority to make this a great place to work. We are a family‑owned company. We think this makes us unique compared to a lot of other companies. It is fundamental to the way our workplaces operate, the decisions we make and how we treat each other. Our workplaces have been recognised for multiple awards. Most recently we were really proud to be presented with three UK Employee Experience Awards in 2022: Gold for Best Talent Management Programme, Silver for Diversity and Inclusion and Bronze for Best Large Company to Work For. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

Contact

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