This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic youth and health & social care focused person to join our dynamic team and is well suited to an individual that is looking to gain hands-on experience in a thriving and supportive workplace. The successful candidate must be as passionate as us about transforming the lives of young people.
Countless talented young people across the country are unemployed, under-employed or looking for a better career. Meanwhile, across the health and social care sector there is currently in a workforce crisis with thousands of vacancies across hundreds of different roles.
See some potential to do some brilliant work? Us too! Could you lead our programmes to get 10,000 young people into health and social care careers over the next 3 years?
As an Operations Executive, you will work with young people, volunteers and partners to deliver programmes and activities to support and encourage 16-30-year olds into sustained health and social care jobs. Working as part of a team within our Central region you will work with clear objectives to ‘connect’, ‘progress’ and help ‘transform’ the lives of young people who need us most.
Responsibilities:
- Supporting young people to develop their confidence and skills.
- Delivery of Prince's Trust's Health & Social Care project.
- Accurately record and track young people’s journey and progression using The Prince’s Trust CRM system.
- Supporting young people into positive sustained outcomes including education, training, and employment.
- Ensuring young people who need us the most are recruited and engaged through outreach.
- Co-ordinating with partners to deliver employment programmes, including leading skills sessions.
- Ensuring every young person ‘progressed’ has an action plan with an appropriate pathway of support and keeping detailed records of our engagement with them.
- Recruitment and management of trusted partners who refer to and/or deliver our services.
- The recruitment and management of volunteers to support and deliver our services.
Requirements:
To support our delivery requirements across Central England we are particularly interested in receiving applications from individuals who have some of the following qualities:
- Experience of the NHS or Health & Social Care sector in any capacity
- Experience of recruiting people into roles within Health & Social Care
- Experience in caseload management to a varied audience
- Have experience in using customer relationship management systems and reporting data
- Able to engage in challenges with optimism and resilience
- Can be adaptive and flexible, ready to embrace change and innovation
- Experience in providing one-to-one support and delivering high quality learning and development sessions through a variety of mediums.
- A natural and effective communicator, passionate about delivering excellent customer service and making the right decision for young people
- Experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Youth Work or Teaching
- Health & Social Care sector
- Recruitment
- Careers & Employability Sector
- Managing Partner Organisations and Volunteers
- Possesses a strong understanding of the challenges young people from within The Trust’s target groups might face.
Youth charity The Prince’s Trust helps disadvantaged young people to get their lives on track. It supports 11 to 30 year-olds who are une... Read more
Birmingham
£24,982 per annum
35 hours per week, permanent
Job Ref: 979
Cranstoun offer a wide range of services across England, including community-based and residential substance misuse services, supported housing, specialist services for young people and families and carers, and domestic abuse services.
Our skilled and compassionate teams work with service users, families and communities, helping them to make positive changes. We’ve been making a difference since 1969 by combining our expertise with innovative approaches and putting people at the heart of what we do.
Our Housing First Service provides housing-related support for homeless adults in Birmingham. We support people to help them find/settle into suitable accommodation. We also work with key strategic partners to help address other social related issues, such as benefit/welfare reform processes, helping to maximise people’s incomes, signposting to relevant primary and secondary health care services and more.
As Team Leader, you will be expected to provide dynamic, effective leadership, providing day-to-day support to frontline Housing First Navigators, supporting them to deliver outstanding housing and social-related outcomes. Reporting to the Adults Service Manager, you will demonstrate a robust knowledge of local housing provision, providers and processes. Good supervisory skills will be expected. Above all, you must be enthusiastic, hard-working and ready to take on a challenge.
If you have any further questions please go to the vacancy on our website, via the link, where contact details are available.
To download an application pack, please visit our website, via the link
Unfortunately, we are unable to accept CVs.
Closing date: Thursday 21 January 2021.
Interview date: to be confirmed - via TEAMS.
We are an inclusive employer, committed to promoting equality and diversity in all areas of our work
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