Stepping Into Work - Work Placement Co-ordinator
- Employer
- Telford & Wrekin Council
- Location
- Skills & Enterprise Hub, Horsehay
- Salary
- 18795
- Closing date
- 25 Jul 2019
- Reference
- TWC000003778
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- Sector
- Health & Social Care / Work
- Job Type
- Social care
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term Contract
- Working Pattern
- Standard
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
My Options - Activity, Wellbeing & Care Services
Work Placement Co-ordinator
£18,795 - £19,1710 per annum
Scale 3
37hours per week (Fixed term)
Do you want to part of a successful team that makes a positive difference to someone’s life? Do you have good administrative skills and feel passionate about supporting colleagues that ensure our customers live a more independent and fulfilling life?
My Options - Activity Wellbeing and Care Services is part of Telford & Wrekin Council and provides a wide range of person-centred support to vulnerable people of all ages and abilities.
We currently provide a wide range of services including; Community Activity and Wellbeing, services, residential options, community support for those people living in their own or shared accommodation and Young People’s Services offering a range of support and activities to children and young people. Our services also include a very successful Shared Lives Scheme and The Skills and Enterprise Hub, where people can develop their skills and confidence as part of their stepping stone to work.
We are looking to recruit an experience and highly motivated person to work with our Skills & Enterprise and Employment Advisory Support Teams, to identify, secure and support work placements for vulnerable adults with learning disabilities who have successfully completed the Stepping Into Work programme.
This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity.
To find out more about the My Options services please take a look at our website: www.myoptionstelford.co.uk
If you would like to discuss this opportunity further please contact: Deb Williams, My Options - Activity Wellbeing and Care services on 01952 381317.For further information on the role please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification.
Please note employees who are at risk will be considered first for this position. Only if an appointment is not made will other candidates be considered.
We are committed to equality and diversity. Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records checkSorry but CVs will not be accepted.
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Telford & Wrekin Council is an award winning council, and we were recognised as Local Authority of the Year 2022 at the Municipal Journal Awards, and the Association for Public Service Excellence Council of the Year in 2021.
At Team Telford we work hard to protect, care and invest to create a better borough and our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Having the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles allows us to deliver the excellent services that residents and businesses on the borough expect from us.
Our friendly and passionate teams are trusted by leaders and managers to deliver this ambition. We invest and nurture our workforce and support our employees to develop and thrive. The better we are the bigger difference we make to the people we serve.
In return we also offer a great range of benefits including competitive salaries, flexible working hours and work arrangements, employee discounts, salary sacrifice schemes, a local government pension scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.
At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice and we know we are stronger and better connected as a result.
We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and where our data shows that specific groups are under-represented within our workforce, our adverts will actively encourage applications from these groups.
We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities or other health conditions. You can find out more about this and our ‘guaranteed interview scheme’ here
You can also read more about our Recruitment and Selection Policy commitments and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders here
If you are unable to complete an online application form please contact the HR helpdesk on 01952 383601 or email hrhelpdesk@telford.gov.uk
- Website
- http://www.telford.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 01952 380000
- Location
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Telford & Wrekin Council
Darby House
Lawn Central
Telford
Shropshire
TF3 4JA
United Kingdom
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