SEQF Team Leader

Shaw Trust; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Bank holidays

Enhanced pension scheme

Life Assurance

Learning & development opportunities

Flexible working from day one

Job summary

Shaw Trust seeks a Supported Employment Team Leader to lead a team of Employment Specialists in Yorkshire, delivering person-centred support. You will coach staff, supervise field activities and drive outcomes aligned with Shaw Trust’s mission.

You will champion evidence-based practice across the five stages of Supported Employment, lead quality reviews, and support SEQF assessments to ensure excellent participant outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Employment Specialists.
• Drive performance, quality and continuous improvement across the team.
• Provide regular supervision, field mentoring and development.
• Embed evidence-based supported employment practice across the five stages.
• Support SEQF quality reviews and assessments.

Job description

“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.

Purpose

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.

Location

You will be based in Yorkshire

Employee 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.

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: [e-mail]

Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.