Employability Officer - Trailblazer WCC623414

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Employability Officer - Trailblazer WCC623414

Salary range: £42,912 - £46,854 per annum. Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Work location: Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Temporary up to 12 months
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 5 March 2026
Interview date: 10 and/or 12 March 2026

About Us:

THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF DAPHNE'S INSIGHT

Corporate Services in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where passionate and expert professionals go above and beyond for their colleagues every day.

Daphne, our champion for people with learning difficulties, is a real beacon. She doesn't just advocate for colleagues with these difficulties, she teaches managers how to identify and understand the conditions and support their teams at work. Daphne has an innate ability to see the human behind every situation, helping them capitalise on strengths and overcome challenges to be their very best. With her empathy and expertise, she's a natural. But then, a lifetime of managing her own dyslexia and dyspraxia brings with it unique insight. Our people - and ultimately residents - benefit every day.

Please view the extraordinary story of Daphne's Insight here .

The Role:

As Employability Officer, you too can make a powerful contribution, by helping residents to secure employment.

The Westminster Employability Programme creates employability packages for priority groups of residents. Designed for residents themselves to use, our employability packages are intended to be innovative and inclusive. As Employability Officer, you'll assist in their creation, including time, cost and scope interventions.

Plus, you'll feed into regular reviews of the programme, so that we're always evolving to better meet resident needs. You'll do this through a combination of desk research, conversations with stakeholders, drawing on insights from service delivery, and the trial and testing of new employability programmes. We'd also like you to keep on top of employability trends and benchmark our offering against other local authorities. You'll undertake regular horizon scanning of national and local legislation, ensuring that our provision can adapt to them easily.

As Employability Officer, you'll signpost clients to other local and Westminster City Council Services, when its needed. This may be mental health charities, NHS services, social services or housing providers.

It's key that you're able to manage your own time and caseload. As well as confidently communicate with our service users. Join us and you'll be supported to reach your professional aspirations.

In this role, you'll be dedicated to supporting vulnerable populations with barriers to employment. This may be due to a mental health difficulty, disability, homelessness or offending behaviour. You'll already have a sound knowledge of the various social and public policy initiatives that can impact them. You've created employability packages to address the unique needs of residents. Innovative and always striving for better inclusivity, you regularly review provisions and take action to improve them.

Experienced at working collaboratively and communicating to a broad range of people, you ensure that everyone feels heard. You're able to build trust and rapport so that people feel comfortable sharing barriers that they face. Plus, you're a problem-solver, always focused on applying structured thinking and evidence to tackling challenges and landing on effective, practical solutions. You've coached clients, including those that face multiple disadvantages, and have given them the needed support to secure employment.

As well as this, you'll be experienced in workshop creation and delivery. You've used a range of technology and systems to aid employment. Your desk research and information gathering are both of a reliably high quality. Previously, you've taken a resident and data led approach to improving employability programmes. This extends to sharing what you've worked on with cabinet members, executive directors and other senior stakeholders.

Even under high pressure, you remain resilient and steadily focused on key priorities and deliverables. Your work always aligns to organisational standards, for record keeping, sign-off and escalation policies. And above all, you're enthusiastic about helping people find fulfilling employment.

Westminster City Council is committed to supporting Care Leavers into the workplace. Care Leavers seeking their first job and who wish to be considered under our scheme, will automatically be invited to interview should they meet the essential criteria for the role.

What We Offer:

Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council's strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city's future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that, at all levels, represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and is empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.

The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.

We reserve the right to extend or close this vacancy early without warning subject to the volume of suitable applicants.