Lead Advisor - Bradford, United Kingdom - The Growth Company

The Growth Company

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Bradford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
Bradford

Company
The Growth Company

Contract type
Permanent/ Full
- time

Salary
Up to £33,000 per annum

Closing Date
10/07/2023

Ref No
3599

The Growth Company's Employment team have an exciting opportunity for a Activity Hub Lead Advisor to manage a Rehabilitation Activity Hub within North Yorkshire and lead a team of delivery and support staff to ensure successful delivery of the contract maximise achievement of outcomes and deliver the performance expectations of the Ministry of Justice.

There will be a requirement to travel to other Hubs within the Yorkshire region.

Interviews will be held on the 10th July 2023 for this role

Key Responsibilities

Support the Service / Hub Manager in ensuring the successful delivery of team targets for commissioners
Help manage the relationship with National Probation Service (NPS) and other partners to ensure that sufficient referrals are received to meet service level targets and contract requirements
Support the smooth running of the hub by supporting to coordinate hub activities, such as one

- to-one and group interventions

Support a team of delivery and support staff to drive high levels of contract performance and create a 'hub' atmosphere and ethos of support and rehabilitation
Support the management of the hub premises, and cover for the Hub Manager when they are not on the premises
Support the achievement of income targets, delivery staff and managing client spend and office costs
Support the development of local relationships to ensure that a good range of provision is provided and can be accessed to support customer needs and their onward journey
Engage with, and work closely with, local employers, education and training providers to create opportunities for participants on provision at the hub
Coordinate hub delivery of onetoone and groupwork delivered by staff, subcontractors and other partners
Develop local relationships and effective marketing activities to ensure the service receives participant referrals to meet contractual requirements
Work closely with NPS Offender Manager(s) / Responsible Officer(s) to manage risk and safeguarding
Support the management of data integrity and data security, including production and maintenance of the required audit trail
Manage a small caseload and be an exemplar practitioner
Maintain current knowledge of appropriate market intelligence and business opportunities/threats

About You

Experience of managing and supporting other colleagues with caseloads
Track record of achieving tangible performance results
Experience of maintaining contract compliance and ensuring paperwork is fully compliant
Strong understanding of employability and training, preferably within the justice sector and employment industries
Good understanding of MI and financial information
Good labourmarket knowledge

Skills Required:

Ability to confidently present to partner organisations and other stakeholders
Ability to produce written reports
Fluent user of ICT
Good knowledge of guidance and national standards

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working.

Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles.

We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.