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Working Well is a mental health and employment charity in London. All of our projects share the aim of improving the lives of people with mental health, learning disabilities, neurodiversity, and/or complex issues through training and employment.
We are recruiting a full-time Employment Support Worker for our supported employment team in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. This is a permanent role. The post holder will carry a caseload of clients who may have one or more support needs including:
Learning Disabilities
Autism
Mental Health
The focus of the role is to support clients to achieve their employment goals, engaging with employers and training providers to secure vocational outcomes in line with client preferences.
Experience of employment support is not essential, it is more important that you share our commitment to supporting people to find the right job for them. Experience working with individuals affected by learning disabilities and autism would be beneficial. The successful candidate must be comfortable in approaching employers, persuading them to use our service, and working with them to recruit our clients to fill vacancies and sustain employment.
You will work closely with referring teams, providing a coordinated approach that always remains client led. You will also be in working to targets whilst maintaining a high-quality service.
We are operating a hybrid working model in our Kingston team, with a combination of working from home and in the community with a required 3 days per week spent in our Kingston office.
Staff benefits include an employer contribution to a personal or workplace pension equivalent to 6% of gross salary. 30 days annual leave plus paid public holidays.
Working Well Trust is an equal opportunities and confident about disabilities employer (two ticks). Any reasonable adjustment requests to our recruitment process can be submitted in your cover form.
Application Process
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Download the Working Well Trust cover form from the application resources
Complete the cover form in full, clearly outlining how you meet the person specification points in the personal statement embedded in the cover form
Add the cover form to the end of your CV before uploading
Submit your CV and cover form together in one document. Applications without a cover form will not be considered.
Closing date: Monday 27th May 2024 (subject to change, we may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applications, so please apply promptly)
Final stage interviews:Thursday 6th June 2024
Recruitment Process
Applications that meet the requirements of the role will be invited to a telephone interview as and when applications are submitted
Candidates that are selected to progress to the next stage will then be invited to a main interview with our panel
