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SalaryRole: Part-time Employment Coach
Based: Birmingham
Salary:£23,000 exact salary
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 2 year Fixed Term Contract
Hours: 4 days per week Mon -Fri 9.00am - 5pm (days negotiable)
Our client, an established domestic violence charity is looking to recruit an Employment Coach to develop a new project to support women who have experienced domestic abuse and are at risk of offending, to gain employment skills and work experience
Synopsis of Duties:
- To assist clients to discover and overcome their personal barriers and set goals.
- To assess the strengths of individuals and teach them to use them effectively.
- To develop effective job coaching and employability support plans with clients.
- To create and deliver 10-week rolling programmes of employability workshops to develop skills including confidence and motivation, CV writing, interview techniques, skill checks, digital skills and job search.
- To provide mentoring and coaching in effective job search techniques.
- To have a creative approach to engaging with participants.
- To be responsible for a caseload of participants, providing signposting and advocacy, addressing their needs and barriers to employment.
- To work with participants on a one to one or group basis as appropriate.
- To interview participants to gain information and ascertain their requirements.
- To motivate, encourage and support participants to move towards employments and tailor a package of support to meet their individual needs.
- To assist participants to plan and progress, in line with their action plans, towards improving their life and employment chances.
- To be responsible for ensuring all Key Performance Indicators are consistently achieved.
- To meet deadlines and targets as required by the needs of the programme.
- To organise work placement experience - by matching the skills of women with business, charities, other agencies.
- Work closely with external organisations to ensure you achieve referrals onto programme.
Essential Requirements:
- Proven experience as job coach
- Experience in working with vulnerable people
- Experience in developing employment plans
- Working knowledge of MS Office.
- Enhanced Child and Adult workforce DBS on the update service
Supporting Futures Consulting acts as both an employer and an agency.
