Southwark, South East London
Senior Practitioner - Southwark Works
Thames Reach
£36,717
Full-time
Description
Role: Senior Practitioner - Southwark Works
Salary: £36,717 per annum
Location: Camberwell
Closing date: 30/11/2023
Interview date: 12/12/2023
Whatever your experience of street homelessness and its impact on people’s lives – personal or professional – when you join the Thames Reach team as a Senior Practitioner, we’ll make the best use of all your understanding, compassion, and commitment.
About us…
Thames Reach runs projects and services that help to end homelessness in London. We work directly with homeless people on the streets and in hostels. We work to prevent vulnerable people from becoming homeless. We help formerly homeless people get their lives back on track. We help people find work and access training and volunteering opportunities.
Is our mission easy? No, but we never give up on people. Last year we helped more then 10,000 people.
Is our work rewarding? Yes, in every sense. We’re listed as one of the top 100 Best Workplaces in the UK. There’s no better place to develop or transfer your skills and build a fulfilling career.
About this role…
The area of Prevention supports vulnerable people by providing them with skills, housing advice, accommodation, and tenancy sustainment support. All the services within the area of prevention work to help people transition towards leading independent lives.
We are looking for a Senior Practitioner to join the Southwark Works team.
You Will
• Manage an Employment & Skills Project which supports people with mental health challenges into employment.
• Lead the team to support people to improve & acquire skills required to access mainstream employment.
• Work closely with our volunteer coordinator to recruit and manage volunteers.
• Run and set up employability workshops, develop accredited/ non accredited training and build / manage partnership with various stakeholders.
• Demonstrate project planning, financial and performance analysis.
• Develop professional relationships with multiple stakeholders including corporate partners and businesses is essential, as is a good understanding of the local and national labour market.
To succeed as the Senior Practitioner, you will be:
• Able to develop team objectives and outcomes, to ensure team service delivery achieves those outcomes to work with people who may have multiple barriers to accessing work.
• The capability to track performance, report outcomes to local commissioners, and answering queries related to quarterly reporting. Additionally, build relationships with commissioners by attending monthly meetings to report on service delivery.
• Possess the necessary I.T. skills to collate and interpret information and statistics of our clients and present these in external meetings.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including confidence in public speaking to enable you to represent Thames Reach to statutory and voluntary organisations.
• Able to supervise and support staff, managing difficult situations that might arise, working closely with other departments and offer training, development and support to staff.
• Promote volunteering opportunities with external partners and in local communities in which we work.
We are listed in the top 100 UK Best Workplaces 2022 in the UK. As part of a commitment to our employees we offer:
• Generous holiday allowance – 29 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata).
• Pension – we contribute 6.5% to your pension when you contribute 1.5%.
• Excellent development opportunities – career progression, regular supervision and appraisals, and learning programmes to support your career with Thames Reach.
• Wellbeing support – our 24/7 employee assistance programme and opportunities for TOIL.
• Life assurance – four times your annual salary.
• Critical illness cover.
• Other benefits including interest free season ticket and cycle to work loans.
Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.
To apply visit our website and complete our application form.
For further information please contact, Stella Ezeh at [email protected]
Thames Reach is committed to safeguarding. Applicants must be willing to undergo pre-employment screening appropriate to the post, including, but not limited to checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Having a criminal record will not exclude you from applying but you will be asked to provide further details as most posts are considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Expiry date: 30/11/2023
Senior Practitioner - Southwark Works
Company
Thames Reach
Salary
£36,717
Job Type
Full-time
Location
Southwark, South East London
Our Commitments
Disability Confident
Building Diverse Workforces
Don’t think this is a good job? Get in touch
Thames Reach
Charity & Non-profit Organisations
No Postings
Sorry, there are no job postings to show.
Our Commitments
Disability Confident
Building Diverse Workforces