Work & Skills Specialist

Are you passionate about tackling work and skills issues and creating solutions for residents? This role will provide comprehensive employment support to MTVH residents through 1-1 and group based interventions. Support will include addressing entry barriers to the labour market, maximising professional development for people who are in work, creating learning and career pathways to address skills gaps and foster career growth and offering early targeted interventions for customers facing complex barriers to work. The Work and Skills Specialist will link with frontline teams across MTVH to design and deliver work and skills pathways, identify and support residents through those pathways and evaluate the success of these initiatives.

• Strong track record of delivering work and skills support with a track record of supporting people into work or improved skills.
• Highly organised with strong interpersonal skills
• Experience of using coaching and training techniques to engage and empower service users
• Innovation and ability to continuously improve service outcomes.
• Experience of delivering hard targets and working within a performance driven environment.
• Proven experience of delivering a coordinated holistic service with a good working knowledge of the issues affecting those who are in in-work poverty or not working.
• Experience of identifying, developing and managing strong partnerships.
• IAG Level 4 Qualification desirable.
• Experience of using employability systems and/or Customer Relationship Management systems.
To meet our commitment to providing safe, high quality services to our customers we will complete a Enhanced background check with the Disclosure and Barring service, once an offer of employment is made. As standard you will be added to the DBS updating service with a new check being carried out on a 3 yearly basis. The cost of a DBS application will be paid for by the organisation., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH. Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document Our promise Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively 'Serving people better every day' to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme. We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other's wellbeing. We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we're doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!


• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional 'Beliefs day' once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit - interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation