Employability and Skills Trainer

1st Stage Interviews: 23rd October

Are you passionate about making a positive impact on people's lives and helping them reach their full potential?

If so, Curo, an established, leading Housing Association based in the heart of Bath has the perfect opportunity for you. We are excited to recruit an Employability & Skills Trainer to join our dedicated Work Wise Team. This is a golden opportunity to start your career at Curo.

Why Join Curo?

At Curo, we're not just about providing housingwe're about building futures. We believe our colleagues are the cornerstone of our success, and we're committed to ensuring each colleague has the opportunity to grow, learn, and advance. With our forward-thinking strategy, we're constantly exploring a wide range of dynamic projects and career progression opportunities designed to inspire and engage.

We embrace a values-driven culture that revolves around Care, Respect, Openness, Fairness, and Trust.

• This means delivering exceptional customer service while treating all individuals warmly and honestly.
• We value diversity, tailor services where possible, and maintain transparent, inclusive communication.
• Our ethical commitment ensures consistency and decency in our treatment of others, even when challenges arise.
• Trust is paramount, as we entrust our team, customers, colleagues, and partners to act with integrity and make decisions for the right reasons.

Whether you're looking to make a difference in the community, develop your skills, or take your career to the next level, Curo is the place where your ambitions become achievements.

About the Workwise team

As a self-funded team, we have a strong history of securing additional funding year after year, allowing us to consistently achieve high success levels by working with a diverse range of individuals across BANES, North Somerset, Bristol, and South Gloucestershire.

Whether its providing essential support to refugees and asylum seekers or helping people build confidence with numbers in their everyday lives, we are committed to seeing everyone reach their full potential. If you love working with people and are driven by a desire to see others succeed, wed love to have you on our team!

What you'll be doing

As an Employability & Skills Trainer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering skill training programs, supporting individuals across B&NES, Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Planning and delivering engaging employability and skills training sessions.
• Completing the necessary administration after each training session, writing case-studies, and capturing the data entry onto MS Excel.
• Collaborating with partners to identify and recruit individuals for support and training programs.
• Creating impactful promotional materials and actively promoting our services.
• Participating in local employability and skills-related network events.
• Providing structured coaching and mentoring on a 1-to-1 and group basis, including drop-in sessions.
• Delivering holistic life skills, wellbeing, and activity programs.

You will be required to have a valid UK driving license, with access to your own vehicle, as you will be delivering skills training, travelling throughout the region 5 days a week.

More about you

The successful Employability & Skills Trainer will be self-motivated with:

• Confidence and experience in organising and delivering skills training, with an understanding of the employability and skills field.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively liaise with colleagues and customers.
• Administration experience, using MS office and in particular Excel
• A background of working with external agencies.
• A background of working with groups with barriers and ethnicity.
• Passion for the employment and skills agenda, with experience in empowering people to fulfil their potential.
• Solution-focused and strengths-based approach with a continuous improvement mindset.

At the same time you will demonstrate resilience and the desire to work in an interesting environment where no day is ever the same!

We will need to take up an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check for this role which we will do for you when you start.

What youll get in return

We believe youll have a job that makes you feel good about what youre doing and help us to make a difference to our customers lives every day.

So in return for all your hard work, not only do you get a great salary but we also offer:

• 26 days annual leave (plus public holidays) rising to 29 days after 3 years service.
• An additional days leave on your birthday
• Contributory (Salary Sacrifice) Pension Scheme matched by CURO up to 10%
• Annual Homes for Good Reward.
• Life Assurance Policy (up to 6x your annual salary)
• Flexible Benefits including the ability to buy up to 5 days additional annual leave, gym membership, Health Cash Plan, Computer Scheme, Green Cars, Cycle to Work
• Perks at Work access to 1000s of discounts online and in-store.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing friendly impartial advice on financial, health, work or mental wellbeing.
• Free Parking at many of our Offices.

Please be aware that internally this role is Employability and Skills Coach.

For an informal discussion about the role please call Laura Walker on 07790 812 938

We will be closing applications on 13th October, however we will be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the vacancy earlier should we find the right applicant. So, if you think youre the person for this job, please dont delay and apply today.

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