Cathy Kubiak Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Our employees within Pathway Group are our most valuable asset, so managing, nurturing and keeping them engaged and motivated is key to our ability to provide a high-quality service to our learners, contract providers and delivery partners. We consider ourselves to be an employee focused employer and with this is mind providing a high quality service to our employees is just as vital.We do this by providing an environment and culture that is proactively supportive of employee wellbeing and promotes continuous professional development with opportunities for growth and promotion. A wealth of both internal and external training is provided for our staff giving the ability to our employees to gain accredited qualifications, the flexibility to change career without having to change company and more importantly to foster a sense of security, pride and confidence both in themselves and in the organisation that they are working with.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

2018 - 2022 - Business Manager 2022 -2024 - Executive Support Lead2024 - Present - Head of HRF5 Foster Care is an Independent Fostering Agency based in Birmingham and is the sister company of Pathway Group and Nationwide Care Group. Our fostering service is born out of true Passion. Every one of us involved in the creation and development of F5 has strong personal reasons for wanting to be involved in the world of children's services.Our Primary Aim is to provide a high-quality Fostering Service to looked after children and young people by providing foster placements where each child will have stability and a warm, safe, nurturing environment in which to thrive.Our core values are based are based on the five F’s of F5 Foster Care. We aim to embed these values within everything that we do from our recruitment of staff and Foster Carers, right through to our Placement Plans and activity days. They are the basis upon which we build our service. Foster Carers– We recruit our committed Foster Carers with a diverse range of skills, knowledge and cultures in order to offer wider and more closely matching placement opportunities.Families – Supporting and caring for our foster families, respecting children’s birth families.Futures – Recognising that providing excellent reflective care everyday supports the child’s journey to a brighter future.Fairness –Valuing diversity and celebrating what makes each child unique.Feedback – We actively encourage feedback from children and young people, our Carers and the Placing Local Authorities.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Our talent management and culture development strategies are aligned with the “H3 Management” business model which was conceived by CEO Safaraz Ali. The H3 model talks of three key attitudes that when synergised produce high levels of engagement and productivity. Hunger – drive and motivationHabits – positively reinforcing and encouraging good practice Humbleness – The understanding that even as the mentor you are still a menteeEvery organisation has a “way that we do it around here” mentality. The idea behind our talent management and culture development is to ensure that the Pathway Group version of this reflects our positivity, our hunger our habits and our humbleness. Striving to make small improvements regularly (*SIRII) in our innovation and what makes us different. Its what will make us an employer of choice and an industry leader.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Assisting line managers to understand and implement policies and proceduresPromoting equality and diversity as part of the culture of the organisation;Liaising with line managers in relation to staff performance and health and safety;Recruiting staff - this includes developing job descriptions and person specifications, preparing job adverts, checking application forms, short-listing, interviewing and selecting candidates;Developing and implementing policies relating to working conditions, performance management, equal opportunities, disciplinary procedures and absence management;Undertaking regular salary reviews where requires;Liaising with trade union representatives and employment law specialists;Administering payroll/expenses and maintaining employee records;Interpreting and advising on employment law;Supporting line managers in dealing with grievances and implementing disciplinary procedures;Planning and delivering inductions for new staff;Analysing training needs in conjunction with departmental managers;Supporting the company through various inspections, i.e. Ofsted and IIP;Managing staff reduction levels at times of low work;

Walsall, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Managed the DWP Work Programme until 2013. I then became Assistant manager on an ESF Funded Supporting Families project whilst also supporting quality and compliance and staff development throughout the company. This included being involved with training plans, completing observations, grading staff capability. The Compliance role also included a large amount of file auditing.

Post Graduate Degree, Human Resource Management

Level 7 CIPD

Ilm Level 5 In Leadership And Management

ILM Level 5 in Leadership and Management

Cipd Chrp, Certificate In Human Resourse Practice

Certificate in Human Resource Practice

Iag Level 4, Information, Advice And Guidance Level 4

Level 3 Digital Marketing, Marketing, Pass

Level 3 Counseling Skills, Counseling Psychology, Working Towards