Peer Advisor, Placement Co-ordinator - Leeds, United Kingdom - St Giles Trust

St Giles Trust

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Leeds, United Kingdom

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Job Summary:

Are you a proactive, collaborative and target-driven individual with a proven record of delivering effective and engaging training to adults facing multiple disadvantages? Do you have a strong background of working to targets and recording information and statistics to enable effective performance monitoring?

If so, St Giles is looking for a highly motivated
Peer Advisor, Placement Co-ordinator & Key Worker to join our team and play a vital role in our peer-led services, where you will provide a high-level service to individuals with lived experience, engaging and supporting them to achieve their Level 3 Certificate in Advice and Guidance and to progress onto further opportunities and sustainable employment.

About St Giles
An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.

Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About this exciting opportunity

As a
Peer Advisor, Placement Co-ordinator & Key Worker, you will liaise with St Giles staff and Together Women, our partner organisations to support Peer Advisors to produce realistic individual learning plans, before providing a comprehensive induction and continual one-to-one support.

You will play a key role in the work undertaken at Together Woman Project to ensure people with lived experience are represented within organisations and wider society.

This support will include planning and delivering a training programme that will lead to the achievement of Level 3 Certificate in Advice and Guidance, where you will assess and support learners through the qualification and monitor their progress towards timely completion and certification.

Developing and maintaining the range of work placement opportunities, matching learners to placements and ensuring positive relationships with placements providers is a key aspect of this role, as is attending internal and external meetings and best practice seminars and undertaking all the administration necessary for tracking learner progress.

What we are looking for:

TAQWA qualified or a willingness to work towards this
Experience of delivering training to adults facing disadvantage and ability to support people who have multiple and complex needs
A strong understanding of how to support and motivate learners with multiple complex needs
Excellent prioritisation, planning and communication skills, both verbal and written
A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, access to clinical supervisions, season ticket loan and much more.

Closing date: 11pm, Friday, 23rd
June 2023.

Interview date:
Wednesday, 5th
July 2023.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.