Work for us
Our staff are key to the success of Avenues' services.
Avenues employs over 1200 staff across London and the South East in a range of roles, from being a part of one of over 50 service teams working with people with complex needs to working in our central services, supporting the work we do.
Rewarding, challenging, fun - working for Avenues can be all of these. Our motivated staff teams deliver quality services, with each person playing a valued part.
To support this work, Avenues is committed to recruiting and developing quality staff. We have developed the Avenues Academy, which provides each member of staff with the training they need to support them in their role, as well as a clear structure for career progression.
If you are interested in working for Avenues please search our vacancies on our Current Vacancies page. We are always interested to hear from people, particularly those interested in working on a casual basis, joining our bank team of casual employees. You can either apply by downloading our on-line application form and sending it back to apply@avenuesgroup.org.uk or by post to our head office address. You can also call us on 020 8308 2909.
Follow this link to find out more about the benefits for working at Avenues.
National Training Awards
The Avenues Group recently became Regional Winners at the National Training Awards.
The National Training Awards are the UK's number one award for businesses, organisations and individuals who have achieved success through training and learning and are run by UKSkills on behalf of the Government Department responsible for Business Innovation and Skills.
We entered the award with support from Croft Management who we have partnered with to deliver the Chartered Management Institute's Diploma in Management and more recently the Certificate in Management.
Winning an award demonstrates for us at Avenues the commitment to investing in our staff and positions us as forward-thinking and gives us a competitive edge in today's highly competitive and ever-changing economic climate. Continuous learning and development is proving to be more important than ever, creating a highly skilled workforce, increases performance and brings success to our staff and our organisation enhancing our credibility and reputation.
National Vocational Qualifications
Avenues are an approved and accredited centre with City & Guilds who are recognised as the UK's leading Awarding Body for Vocational Qualifications. We offer our staff NVQ levels 2, 3 and 4 in Health and Social Care, as well as being able to train and qualify our own NVQ Assessors and Internal Verifiers.
For our support staff we also offer the Learning Disability Qualification (LDQ) accredited by City & Guilds, which is the only work-based qualification that is specific to staff working with people with learning disabilities.
For our office based staff we are able to offer NVQ's in Business Administration and will be extending these qualifications to include Customer Services.
We have a dedicated NVQ team who manage and support our staff in achieving their qualifications and are proud of the fact that we consistently achieve an A* rating when inspected by City & Guilds.
