SEQF Team Leader

Shaw Trust; York; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Volunteering leave

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Learning and development

Employee networks

Health and wellbeing

Flexible working

Job summary

Shaw Trust is seeking an experienced Supported Employment Team Leader to inspire and develop a team of Employment Specialists, guiding high-quality, person-centred support for participants in the five stages of Employment and SEQF framework.

You will drive performance, support continuous improvement, provide regular supervision and mentoring, and embed evidence-based practice across the team to deliver meaningful outcomes and social impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Employment Specialists to deliver high-quality, person-centred support.
• Drive performance, quality and continuous improvement across the team.
• Provide regular supervision, field mentoring and development to support participant outcomes.
• Embed evidence-based practice across the five stages of Supported Employment and SEQF.

Job description

As a Supported Employment Team Leader, you will lead, coach and develop a team of Employment Specialists, supporting people facing barriers to employment to find, secure and sustain meaningful work. You will play a key role in ensuring participants receive high-quality, person-centred support delivered in line with the Supported Employment Model, the five stages of Supported Employment and SEQF Quality Framework.

You will be responsible for driving performance, quality and continuous improvement across your team, providing regular supervision, field mentoring, coaching and development to support excellent participant outcomes. You will help embed evidence-based supported employment practice across the five stages of Supported Employment, support quality improvement activities and lead your team through quality reviews and SEQF assessments.

"Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation"\

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 eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

As an employee of Shaw Trust as well as positively impacting people's lives, 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 (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

Our Strategy

To find out more about Shaw Trusts aims in our 2030 Strategic Directive available here: Vision-2030-Strategic-Directive-5-9.pdf

Join a diverse and inclusive organisation

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.

In addition;

• 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.