Working at Reed in Partnership

Reed in Partnership’s mission is to positively transform people and their communities.

We support individuals, their families and the places they live to prosper - often under challenging circumstances.

With our help, people start working, improve their health, develop their skills and fulfil their potential.

Millions of people across the UK have benefited from accessing a Reed in Partnership service and using it to change their lives for the better.

Our Values

We are Fair, Open & Honest
We Take Ownership
We Work Together
We believe that acting in accordance with our values ensures we provide outstanding quality across our services. Our Values guide our work and enable us to fulfil our mission.

Our services

• Reed Employability
We have helped more than 250,000 people to change their lives for the better by starting lasting employment. We know there are many things that mean the jobs market can be difficult for some people.

Whatever their circumstances, we have found ways to make employment work for thousands of people.

• Reed Assessment
Our mission is to provide trusted and assured assessment of people’s abilities.

We manage one of the UK's most secure, flexible, and inclusive test centre networks, and over two million people have had their skills, experience, and expertise tested by Reed Assessment.

• Reed Citizen Services
These services are all defined by helping people from their current situation towards a positive destination.

They include support for young people to fulfil their potential, advice and guidance for migrants, and help for ex-offenders.

• Reed Wellbeing
Sustainable lifestyle changes – such as healthier eating and moving more – can have a profound impact on our daily wellbeing and long-term health.

That’s why Reed Wellbeing is inspiring people to take action and helping them sustain healthy habits.

An Inclusive Culture

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce by recognising and understanding everyone’s unique differences. Valuing diversity allows us to create a workplace where Co-Members can thrive. We are proud that our employees come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences and are reflective of the communities we work in. We appreciate the benefits this brings to the quality of our services. Our inclusive recruitment process provides equal opportunities for all through skills-based selection.

Reed in Partnership is a Disability Confident Leader. This means we are recognised by the government as a champion for inclusion and employment opportunities for people with health conditions and disabilities.

Increasing Ethnic Minority representation within our workforce and in senior leadership roles is an ongoing priority for our company. Ethnic Minority employees account for more than a fifth of our workforce and we have made improvements year on year to the level of ethnic minority representation in management positions.

We are proud to hold Inclusive Employer Standard accreditation.

About us

Changing lives since 1998

We were launched in a single office in Hackney in April 1998 as one of the first employment support service providers in the UK.

As our performance and expertise grew, we expanded to deliver employment services across the UK.

We have also diversified our business across a number of other sectors. Our work in each these sectors enables us to achieve our mission: to positively transform people and their communities.

We have an on-going strategic priority to make this a great place to work.

We are a family-owned company. We think this makes us unique compared to a lot of other companies. It is fundamental to the way our workplaces operate, the decisions we make and how we treat each other.

Our Roles

We have a wide range of exciting roles at Reed in Partnership.

Our company is typically split between our Operations Teams and our Support Teams – with lots of collaborative work between the two.

Operations

Our Operations roles are customer-facing jobs that make things happen for the people we support. Some of these roles include:

• Employment Adviser
Supporting unemployed jobseekers to find and sustain work. Employment Adviser provide a great personal service, are good problem solvers and enjoy achieving results.

• Recruitment Manager
Creating and identifying new employment opportunities in the local area for the jobseekers we support. Recruitment Managers have strong stakeholder management, networking and service delivery skills

• Business Manager
Supervising of a team of Employment Advisers to achieve targets and managing office budgets and spend. Business Managers are really organised, good communicators and leaders.

Support

Our Support teams keep our company running smoothly and help our Operations teams achieve their objectives.

We have a range of entry level to senior leadership roles across our functions.

Our teams include:

• HR
• Finance
• Marketing and Communications
• Risk Management
• IT and Business Systems
• Curriculum and Learning & Development
• Continuous Improvement

 Our Recruitment Process

How it works

Our process varies between the different roles we recruit for.

For most core Operations roles, our process starts with a Role Brief call to discuss the vacancy and your suitability. Following this, a Telephone Interview may be set up. We may also include a Role Play scenario over the phone with a member of our team. If successful at this point, you will be invited in for a competency-based Formal Interview.

For most core Support roles, you can expect to have a Telephone Interview, followed by a single or two-stage competency-based Formal Interview. This may also include a written test, task or presentation element.

If you would like to discuss adjustments we can make to help remove any barriers to application or have any questions about our recruitment process please contact the Recruitment Team.