705 - Universal Credit Job centre Work Coach (EO) - Avon, Somerset and Gloucestershire
Department for Work and Pensions
705 - Universal Credit Job centre Work Coach (EO) - Avon, Somerset and Gloucestershire
£29500
Department for Work and Pensions, Gloucester
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted 1 day ago, 19 Sep | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 58d1505d52f0446c939f517d280b0fb6
Full Job Description
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. We are the UK's biggest public service department and administer the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers.
DWP is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and we aspire to being the most inclusive employer in the United Kingdom.
The Work Coach role is rewarding, varied and complex and no two days will be the same as you will be dealing with different customers face to face and their specific support needs each day.
If you're looking for a career that makes a clear and positive difference to people's lives, then a DWP Executive Officer role may be an ideal for you!, As a Work Coach you hold a vital role in the Department, helping individuals and their families towards financial independence through work and enabling them to claim the support they need as they progress.
Work Coaches are customer-focused, dedicated individuals and able to deliver exceptional service with empathy and compassion to people who need their support.
As a Work Coach, you will use sound judgement to help people through some difficult, challenging times in their lives, and your tailored coaching can make a huge difference to their ability to find, stay in, and progress in a job.
If you're looking for a job that makes a clear difference to people's lives, a Work Coach role in DWP could be just what you are looking for.
Key Accountabilities
The Work Coach role is wide-ranging and diverse. You will be working with customers, employers and colleagues through a combination of face to face, digital and telephone contact on a daily basis. Some of the main activities are set out below:
- Providing support to customers claiming Universal Credit, Employment and
- Offering quality advice to customers about job search actions, supporting them
- Meeting your legal duty to comply with the Equality Act 2010 and making sure
- Building positive relationships with customers that encourages, motivates, and
- Developing an in-depth knowledge of local employment opportunities and the
- Making timely decisions, based on customer needs, and referring them to
- Be accountable for performance and management of your caseload.
What we are looking for: - Effective communication skills both verbally and in writing to a wide range of
- The ability to understand complex information and give clear explanations to
- You will be able to coach customers to improve their movement in to work.
- You must be able to navigate a range of computer systems to action tasks as
- You'll also be required to handle telephony queries and have the ability to
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time
- Generous annual leave - at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for
Support Allowance, Jobseekers Allowance and Income Support.
to job search effectively in a largely digital world, and matching to suitable
vacancies.
your customers get the additional support and advice to help them access our
services.
builds trust.
support our service partners offer.
appropriate help and support.
diverse customers.
the customer.
well as coach customers to. be confident using digital work search tools.
manage difficult situations where required in a calm and professional manner.
If you're looking for a career that makes a clear and positive difference to
people's lives, then being a Work Coach may be an ideal role for you! You can
find out more and apply here.
Do you want to be part of a team where you can be yourself, feel supported, empowered, valued, respected, fairly treated and able to achieve your full potential?
If your answer is Yes. Join us!
We have exciting, challenging and rewarding roles available across DWP.
We are looking for people who are customer focused, with the right skills, commitment and capability to deliver an exceptional public service.
Alongside your salary, the Department for Work and Pensions contributes 28.97% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. This means for your salary of £29,500 DWP contributes £8546.15. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
over time (pro-rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege
leave.
travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
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