Continued... DWP Work Coach Vacancies July, September, November 2021

I did exactly the same , updated info on 10th jan . Received the call with start date and location 23rd and formal contract and offer today . Hope that answers your question

They contacted my references and counter signatory the same day. From submission to vetting confirming my checks were complete was 12 days total.

But..My partner submitted his checks about 5 days ago and his references etc haven't even been contacted yet. It really varies.

A question for those who have done PEC checks, how long did it take from you completing them for dwp to process? Or at least how long till they contacted your employer reference/counter signatory?

If anyone has any experience of working in West London or North London- which location would be more preferable between West London and North London and why?

Do they all train at the Caxton House?

Hi there!
Has anyone had issues with creating a DBS account? It's not working on any browser for me, probably a server issue.

Also, my status changed today to: "We are currently updating your application. We will provide further updates in due course.", and I'm not sure if that is a positive or negative thing. 😶

Do we have to create our own DBS account? I thought that the DBS was done by DWP using the details we upload onto the portal? Any help and advice would be appreciated please?

I feel your pain... we have had similar timelines but I don't think we're alone. Seems to be quite common!

DBS send a letter when the DWP have applied , you don’t have to create an account but it’s free and allows you to see the DBS report, the letter they send has an access code for you to set up if you want to but DBS sent out certificate anyway so can’t see that it makes any difference really. It did allow me to link previous DBS certificates though so all stored in one place

Has anyone here applied for the South West?

They contacted my references and counter signatory the same day. From submission to vetting confirming my checks were complete was 12 days total.

But..My partner submitted his checks about 5 days ago and his references etc haven't even been contacted yet. It really varies.

It’s an absolute joke....I’ve just emailed back to say it’s a really unfair process and you should be told you are on reserve at the point you are given provisional
Offer.....once you accept the provisional offer and submit your pre employment checks you get a congratulations email saying subject to checks ...it just gives false hope....I’ve sent them an email to say I’m
Very disappointed with the process and haven’t been applying for anything else as really didn’t foresee this happening. Doubt it will help but they need to take feedback onboard. Such a bad way to treat people

Mine is the same, I sent my PEC's a week ago today and my references still haven't been contacted

Hi guys! Does anyone have any advice I'm feeling so worried and don't know what to do.
I was left an answer phone message 2 weeks ago now (!) from a woman from DWP saying to call back to discuss a start date and confirm a location for the North London Work Coach vacancy but she left the wrong number to call her back on!! I've emailed customer help so many times with no reply and called the helpline many times to no success! They all just say to wait for customer help to email back but I hear nothing! All this time i'm so worried i've lost my offer because I haven't been able to call back this woman. Does anyone have any advice on who I can contact. I really don't want to lose this job after such a long process and starting to feel so concerned!

I have already accepted a provisional offer from the 'South East - Kent' group and am at the referencing stage, but have today been given a provisional offer for the South London one also. I am open to working in either area but am not sure if I can accept two provisional offers and then confirm an unconditional offer at a later date? Is this bad form?

I don't want to turn down London and then end up on the reserves for Kent.

I did this myself as provisional offer is there only to allow the PECs to be done. You can either end up on a reserve list or with a formal offer. In my case, I first applied for East London, accepted a provisional offer and PECs started. Then I applied for Kent, accepted the provisional offer and PECs started for this application too. I've then got placed on reserve list for East London last week while two days ago I got "the call" with a formal offer, location and start date for Kent and accepted it. So keep you options open and don't worry. You can accept as many provisional offers as you want. It's "the call" with the formal offer with details about your office, start date etc that counts.
If you applied for South London it means that Dartford (which is part of Kent area) is not far away for example 😉.

Oh thanks so much!

I was just wondering what month/campaign you applied to with regards to Kent? I applied at the beginning of December and still going through pre-employment. Hopefully not much longer!

Just got the reserve list email for East and North Group - East Scotland, anyone else applied for that area?

I applied in November and got the conditional offer 18th Dec, I'm assuming all hope is now lost? Such a long process!

Hi there!
Has anyone had issues with creating a DBS account? It's not working on any browser for me, probably a server issue.

Also, my status changed today to: "We are currently updating your application. We will provide further updates in due course.", and I'm not sure if that is a positive or negative thing. 😶