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Pathway Co-ordinator

Employer
Specsavers
Location
Fareham
Salary
Competitive plus benefits
Closing date
10 Aug 2021

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Job Role
Optometrist
Sector
Multiple Practice
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

We are passionate about our people.  At Specsavers we support our colleagues to be the best they can be. We have a strong legacy of growing our talent from within and developing a strong pipeline of talented individuals with the skills and capabilities that we need, now and in the future. 

 

The joint venture partnership at Specsavers is our greatest strength, with every store locally owned and led by its directors – usually an optometrist and a dispensing optician, audiologist or retailer. Our pathway programme is the route to partnership for Specsavers employees. It’s their personalised journey to partnership.

 

Main Purpose of the Team

Working within the Pathway team to support with the coordination of the Pathway Programme activities and organisation of assessment centres to ensure we have an effective pipeline of future ready Partners who become part of the Greenroom.  Effective management of new Partner checks to ensure due diligence.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure effective planning, co-ordination, tracking and effective engagement of those on Pathway, providing a key point of contact for questions and support across all comms channels
  • Help build positive relations within the team and key stakeholders
  • Provide regular updates to the Pathway Manager with relevant project information
  • Support with the collation of Pathway feedback and producing feedback reports identifying opportunities for continual improvement
  • Provide support with managing end of Pathway assessment feedback process.
  • Arranging review meetings and setting targets for improvement.
  • You may be required to attend off site Assessments which may include travel outside of normal office hours.
  • Work closely with Partner Development to ensure development options remain fit for purpose based on feedback and learner experience.
  • Prepare and deliver routine and ad hoc reports around the pipeline coming through from Pathway Foundation. 
  • Effective management of the Partner checks (DBS/Credit Checks/References) to ensure that new partners have effective checks in place ahead of joining the Partnership
  • Co-ordination of the assessment centre processes to ensuring candidates and assessors are briefed and have all the relevant tools / documentation
 

Key Skills

  • Previous experience gained in an administration / co-ordination role
  • Ability to work efficiently on their own initiative, whilst also being able to work effectively as a team
  • Excellent customer service, communication skills
  • Builds rapport with key stakeholders and suppliers and responds to requests and demands in a helpful manner
  • Ability to problem solve, adapts to change and is flexible and adaptable
  • Able to work under pressure with challenging / tight deadlines
  • Logical, practical, and ability to challenge when required
  • A high degree of computer literacy, particularly experience of using Excel and Word
  • The ability to work with and maintain accurate data and have a keen eye

 

We are well-known for valuing our people and offer not only competitive reward and benefits packages but also ongoing development and training, enabling our staff to be the very best they can be. 

 

We acknowledge your wellbeing and work life balance is important therefore we are happy to talk about flexible working. 

 

If you can see yourself being part of this journey, apply now! 

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