For more information on the role, please contact: Bryony Dolby Email: bryony.dolby@hft.org.uk Telephone: 07407643872
Location: Focus area is North West (inc. Lancashire and Cumbria) with some travel outside of this area
Salary: £31,231.61, increasing to £32,168 from 1st October 2024
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week
A full UK driving license is essential for this role
Find your place with us and help change lives.
We are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting over 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams.
Join us as a manager with Hft and you’ll develop your social care career with one of the leading names in the sector. You’ll go to work each day knowing you can make a real difference to the lives of adults with learning disabilities.
About the role
As a Work Options Manager at Hft, you’ll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible, and work towards achieving and maintaining their employment aspirations. You will be a role model to others through demonstrating excellent support and Supported Employment techniques to interns and graduates, and you will work with the National Work Options Manager to coach, support and manage staff teams effectively. You will be responsible for nurturing and inspiring those coming to work for Hft to help ensure we have the best staff teams offering a great support service.
The purpose of the Work Options Manager role is to hold responsibility for a team of Employability Coaches, and Follow On Employability Coaches, across a number of Hft’s supported internship programmes. This will involve both direct line management and operational support in the day to day running of each programme, to ensure young people with Learning Disabilities who participate in the programmes gain the skills and experience necessary to achieve their aspirations. You will promote and lead good practice at all times, doing all you can to make sure that the people we support are safe, and provided an excellent Supported Employment provision.
Alongside the National Work Options Manager, you are responsible and accountable for monitoring, maintaining and providing the highest standards of support to interns and graduates of Hft’s Project SEARCH programmes. You will also hold responsibility for implementing Hft’s role as the Supported Employment provider in new supported internship programmes.
As Work Options Manager, you will be home based, and will visit programmes onsite as and when required, as well as undertaking elements of your role remotely. Core working hours will be Mon-Fri during programme operational hours, however, you will need to be open to flexible working which may involve some occasional evening and weekend work. There will be an expectation to provide management support outside of the focus area, and there will be occasional need for overnight stays.
What’s in it for you?
There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training and support along the way.
With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation we are omitted to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people to live the best life possible.
We offer:
Access to the Hft Plus benefits package*, which includes a range of discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out and also includes an Employee Assistance Programme with telephone and face-to-face support options
Access to award winning training and development* – Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status
Annual staff award scheme* – The Fusion Awards, and peer recognition through our GEM awards programme
25 days annual leave* (plus 8 statutory bank holidays)
A contributory pension scheme & life assurance*
Free DBS Check*
We ask all our teams to take advantage of the Covid-19 vaccination, which is offered to frontline support workers as a priority group. In some types of service this vaccine is required by law, but we strongly encourage everyone to be vaccinated (across all our services) to ensure both the safety of the people we support and our colleagues.
Join us and help us change lives.
Job Description and Person Specification
Shortlisting for this role will take place as applications are received. We therefore reserve the right to close this vacancy once suitable candidates have been appointed.
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Hft's usual terms and conditions apply. Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do. Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment.