Your Journey to a Career with Avenues Group!
1. Simple Application Process
Start by filling out our quick and easy online application form for your chosen role. We encourage early applications, as we review submissions throughout the advertising period. If you need any assistance with the application or have questions, our recruitment team is here to help.
2. Career Conversation
If your application is successful, you’ll be invited to a short telephone discussion with a member of our recruitment team. This is an opportunity for us to learn more about you and ensure the role aligns with your expectations. It’s also your chance to ask any questions.
3. Interview
Following a successful telephone discussion, you’ll be invited to a virtual or face to face interview with our team!
4. Offer & Pre-Employment Checks
If successful, you’ll receive an exciting career offer from Avenues Group. Our pre-employment team will guide you through the process and will be here to support every step of the way!
5. Start Your Career!
Once everything is in place, you’ll begin your rewarding journey with Avenues Grou!p - we’re excited to have you on board!
We know well supported people support people well. Our employees enable people to transform their own lives, make choices about how they want to live and take part in community life.
It’s challenging work. While most of the people we support have autism or learning disability, many have multiple or complex needs, and sometimes challenging behaviour. These behaviours often stem from frustration or anxiety, sometimes from the way they have been supported in the past.
Avenues support teams work with people to understand what they like, what they don’t like, and their ambitions, and then help them make choices. Active Support and Positive Behaviour Support are fundamental at Avenues, and through learning and applying these approaches, you can transform people’s experience of life.
We’re privileged to have been supporting some people for more than 20 years, and proud of the staff who make it all happen. Our strong working culture shaped by the people who work for us, and reflected in our vision and values.
From the moment you join us you’ll get all the support you need, through your local team and the wider Avenues Group.
As well as competitive rates of pay, which vary from job to job, we offer a range of other employee benefits:
Flexible working hours: operational roles will always put needs of the people we support first; but wherever possible we will provide working hours that fit with your commitments at home as well as at work
Personal pension plan: administered by The Pensions Trust, your pension plan will also include life assurance
Health plan: you will be eligible for a discounted plan with Simply Health to get cash back on everyday health appointments
Recommend a friend scheme: introduce someone to Avenues and you will receive £500 upon them completing their probationary period and they will receive £250 (terms and conditions apply)
Employee Assistance Programme (counselling & support): a free 24-hour helpline available to help employees cope with the challenges that we all face in life, both practical and emotional.
Online Health Portal: confidential access to information, resources and options to address a wide range of issues
Vodafone mobile discounts: as a Vodafone Business Customer all our employees can get discounts on Airtime Plans and accessories
The Benefits Website: cheap deals and offers on a range of services including breakdown cover, gym memberships, days out, shopping, travel and much more
Avenues has engaged with an external Recruitment Process Outsourcing partner to manage the recruitment process for these roles and your application.
This privacy notice sets out how the data that you submit will be used throughout our recruitment process and how we protect your personal data in accordance with the most recent Data Protection Regulations.
Cohesion Recruitment Ltd takes the protection of your personal data very seriously and strictly observes the regulations of the latest Data Protection regulation.
Your Information
We use your personal data made available by you exclusively for the purpose of processing your job application and the onboarding process for those candidates who are offered a role. Your personal data is not passed on, sold on or otherwise transferred unless this is necessary for the purpose of the recruitment process, executing an agreement or you have expressly consented to this. All third parties/platforms that Cohesion work with in regards to our recruitment processes are clearly outlined below.
Purposes
We use your personal data in order to process and consider your application, including conducting eligibility checks. We will also use any information you or others provide to consider your application and for our legitimate interests in managing the recruitment process.
Should your application be successful, relevant data that you have provided will be used in order to administer your subsequent employment. This will be stored in accordance with our internal data and privacy policy (available upon offer of employment).
References
As part of our process, Cohesion Recruitment may ask successful candidates to provide details for at least two referees.
By providing referee details you confirm that you have the necessary authority and have obtained all necessary consent from those individuals in order for us to collect such information for the purpose of an employment or character reference.
Background checks
For certain roles it may be necessary for us to verify the details you have provided (for example in relation to academic qualifications). We may use third party service providers to carry out these checks on our behalf.
Should the role require background checks in relation to criminal convictions we will tell you about this and again, we would use a third party service in order to carry out those checks on our behalf.
We will only carry out background checks in accordance with the law and with your consent.
Automated decision making
For some of our processes we may use automated programmes. For any element of our process that is automated, this will be very clearly stated and will give you the option to contact us to review/discuss the assessment that has been made.
Legal basis
Your data is being processed because;
- This is necessary for the legitimate interests of the business in relation to our recruitment and selection processes;
- This is necessary for compliance with legal obligations to which the business in subject;
- This is necessary for the taking of steps at the request of the individuals with a view to entering a new contract.
Retention of your data
We will hold details of your application for a period of 12 months following the last contact we have with you. We store your data for this time to deal with any matter that may arise in relation to your application.
Some candidates may wish to have their details entered into our talent pool, whereby we will keep your details on file to consider your suitability for future vacancies that may be available. Candidates will be asked if they would like to keep their details on file and would only be added to this database should they confirm they would like to do so.
Candidates who are part of the talent pool will be regularly updated via telephone or email and will be able to unsubscribe/remove their details at any time.
If your application is successful then your details will be retained by the HR department and used in accordance with the internal employee privacy policy (available upon offer of employment).
Disclosure to third parties
Personal data will be shared between the companies mentioned in this policy for recruitment, selection and on boarding processes only.
As part of the recruitment and selection process for some of our roles, Cohesion may use some third party services/platforms such as video interview platforms, Intelligence testing, DBS, or psychometric testing. All candidates will be made aware of when any third party platform or processing is being used and have the right to stop processing or withdraw their application at any time.
Personal data may be shared with government authorities if required by law to do so.
In the event that any of the companies mentioned in this policy are sold or integrated with another business, your details will be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchaser’s advisers and will be passed to the new owners of the business.
Security
We have taken appropriate technical, administrative, physical and procedural security measures to protect your data from misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure, loss, alteration or destruction.
Your rights
If you wish to access your personal data please contact a member of our recruitment team on 0121 713 8320.
You have the right to ask us to rectify and delete your personal data, to restrict its use, or to transfer your data. You also have the right to request further information about the use and handling of your personal information and have the right to object to any further processing of your data by us.
All requests will be dealt with in a timely manner under the statutory time limit that GDPR stipulates.
Access may be denied in some instances if making the information available would reveal personal information about another person or if we are legally prevented from disclosing such inform
