Reference 71083
Trainee Intervention Worker - Birmingham
This post if funded by the United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)
£11.44 per hour. Fixed Term Contract
We can offer hours to suit you. Traineeships can be 15, 22.5, 30 or 37.5 hours.
Are you interested in finding a new career? Would you like to learn whilst working on the job and earning a salary?
Our paid Traineeship roles aim to support inactive participants gain some valuable paid work experience and move closer to the labour market
We are offering 3 months paid Traineeships, If successful your Traineeship could lead to a permanent role with us.
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The Pure project is funded via the United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). It successfully re-launched in April this year and has secured 1 year funding up until March 2025. The purpose of the Pure project remains the same in providing pathways into employment for people with complex needs. We are focused on helping people who are the furthest away from the labour market. Some examples of the people we work with include individuals with learning disabilities and difficulties, individuals with physical and sensory disabilities as well as those facing mental health difficulties and experiencing homelessness.
The benefits;

• 34 days annual leave, plus the option to purchase up to 5 additional days
• Birthday leave
• New Home leave
• Life assurance (3 x salary)
• Employee Assistance programme
• Employee Wellbeing programme
• Flexible Working options

About You
We are looking for enthusiastic people and friendly faces to join our team. You will have an understanding of the issues faced by our vulnerable customers and a desire to train to offer tailored interventions to support vulnerable citizens to access education, training and employment
Key tasks

• Learn to effectively engage with participants and develop trust-based, intensive relationships to provide an appropriate level of support
• Train to mentor and guide the person in actively addressing barriers to work, setting clear goals, short- and medium-term actions consistent with accessing education, training and employment
• Learn to support the person’s progression through a menu of available employment support interventions in order to access employment and/or training at the earliest possibility
• Learn to maintain appropriate caseloads reflecting a person’s varied levels of need, in order to ensure a flexible, holistic support service addressing employability and wider personal support barriers
• Learn to communicate with partners agencies and other relevant partners to explore and access existing support to address the identified support needs of individual people
• Train to maintain an up to date record of individual SMART action planning and support provided through intervention logs
• Learn to participate in regular case reviews with line manager to review outcome focussed activity, discuss barriers to employment and explore training, education and employment opportunities that may meet needs of the participants.
• Train to deliver a high-quality service to participants and work in partnership with the project Administrator to ensure quality and compliance standards are achieved and monitoring information is accurate for our commissioners.
• Learn to take ownership of outcome targets and manage caseload in a timely proactive manner to achieve KPI targets.

Trident Group has over 60 years’ experience of delivering homes, services and innovation for up to 8,000 people in over 3,600 homes in some of the most disadvantaged communities in the Midlands. The Group employs more than 750 staff, works with over 150 volunteers and provides training places and apprenticeships for many more. The Group has an annual turnover of more than £37m and owns assets close than £190m.
The Group consists of;

• Trident Housing, which provides landlord services for the Group in respect of housing management and maintenance
• Trident Reach, which is a registered care and support charity delivering person-centred care and support services. These services include supporting people within registered care, domiciliary care, people with learning difficulties, those with mental health needs, young people at risk, older people, BME groups, people at risk of being homeless, those seeking employability, education and training opportunities and those fleeing domestic abuse.

Trident offers their employees learning and development opportunities and wants to invest in their development and career growth. Through our apprenticeship scheme, we offer various courses in areas that will help support employees within their roles and for their further development.
We celebrate Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and as a person-centred organisation we are continually striving to build a community where everyone feels valued, respected and equally guided by our beacon of hope.
By joining Trident Group, you will have the opportunity to join our Diverse Voices Steering Group to ensure Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion remains at the heart of everything we do.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer,we have committed to:

• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• communicating and promoting vacancies
• offering an interview to disabled people
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition,enabling them to stay in work
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

Applying
All applications must be registered to the PURE project as part of the traineeship.
All applications must be accompanied with a current CV and cover letter which will be used to assess your suitability for the role.
All applicants must provide their right to work documentation at interview stage, such as a valid passport which will be verified to check your eligibility to work and live in the UK.
Relevant roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from Disclosure and barring service (DBS).