DWP Work Coach October 2023

Good work life balance, generally a good environment to work in, decent pay for the workload. A lot of opportunities to progress.

Do you ever have the opportunity to work from home or is it all office based?

Good work life balance, generally a good environment to work in, decent pay for the workload. A lot of opportunities to progress.

Hi, I am in the process of accepting this role, but it was advertised as being possible to work part year part time. I've just had part time agreed, but part year declined for operational reasons. I was wondering if flexi time is easy to build up and what the rules are around that? Might that be a way to build up a good amount of time to take when I need it? Thanks so much for any thoughts you may have!

Flexi time for me personally is hard to build up. But if you’re someone who can commit to coming in super early or taking shorter lunches in order to build it up then you can build it up easily. The main issue will be that if you have build up over 3 days worth of flexi then you will have to take off those days. So you won’t be able to build it up for more than 3 days as you’ll be required to take it off.

Good work life balance, generally a good environment to work in, decent pay for the workload. A lot of opportunities to progress.

Flexi time for me personally is hard to build up. But if you’re someone who can commit to coming in super early or taking shorter lunches in order to build it up then you can build it up easily. The main issue will be that if you have build up over 3 days worth of flexi then you will have to take off those days. So you won’t be able to build it up for more than 3 days as you’ll be required to take it off.

Hi, I am in the process of accepting this role, but it was advertised as being possible to work part year part time. I've just had part time agreed, but part year declined for operational reasons. I was wondering if flexi time is easy to build up and what the rules are around that? Might that be a way to build up a good amount of time to take when I need it? Thanks so much for any thoughts you may have!

How many days and hours are required for part time please? x

The way it worked for me was the JCP manager asked me to make a request, and that was passed on to her line manager. My request was partially agreed (part time weeks, but not part year at all). So once the full time training is finished I'll be doing 4 days a week, and 7 hour days, so 28 hours a week. Another option would have been three longer 8 hour days. Hope that's helpful.

Glad it helps! My manager told me all training is back in the office now, as deemed more supportive to new starters. I think the training is around 6 weeks. I believe the Work Coach role is also fully in the office.
Good luck!

Thank you so much! How long did it take from your interview to confirming you got the job please x

The way it worked for me was the JCP manager asked me to make a request, and that was passed on to her line manager. My request was partially agreed (part time weeks, but not part year at all). So once the full time training is finished I'll be doing 4 days a week, and 7 hour days, so 28 hours a week. Another option would have been three longer 8 hour days. Hope that's helpful.

Hi, I am in the process of accepting this role, but it was advertised as being possible to work part year part time. I've just had part time agreed, but part year declined for operational reasons. I was wondering if flexi time is easy to build up and what the rules are around that? Might that be a way to build up a good amount of time to take when I need it? Thanks so much for any thoughts you may have!