Employability Coach

**Job Description - Employment Coach**

**The Lennox Partnership is delighted to announce that we have been selected to deliver TikTok’s Creative Academy on behalf of Catch 22.**

**We will be delivering** a creative digital skills program for 18-24-year-olds who are not in education, employment, or training. Tackling youth unemployment, the program will support young people in long-term, education, work, and training opportunities in the creative sector.

As an Employment Coach, you will be experienced within the employability sector who understands and actively seeks to work with this cohort, meet young people at their point of need, and build achievable and aspirational plans with and for them.

**To succeed in this role, you must have**:

- **Passion** to support young people in achieving their goals
- **Ability to develop strong relationships** with referral partners, training providers, and employers
- **Strong interpersonal skills**. Approachable, adaptable, and supportive to the range of stakeholders involved in this program
- **Ability to develop a strong rapport**:

- **Ability to positively challenge mindsets**

**Main Duties include**:

- To deliver a range of supportive interventions to help a wide range of young people work towards sustainable employment
- To deliver high-quality end to end Information, Advice, and Guidance to young people on the program
- To induct, assess, and 'on-board’ young people
- To promote and develop the mindset, emotional intelligence qualities, self-confidence, and esteem so that young people succeed in the world of work
- To complete goal-focused action plans for all referred young people and provide support and motivation for them to implement their action plans
- To coach the young people on a 1:1 basis on completion of the Creative Academy 4-week program
- To introduce young people to a 'strengths-based’ recruitment approach to succeeding in job interviews
- To prepare young people to a high standard for an interview with employers
- To undertake job searches with young people using relevant web-based software and packages
- To shortlist, pre-select, and match/submit young people to vacancies/work experience opportunities and arrange interviews for young people where appropriate
- To successfully place young people from a range of target groups into career-focused employment or education opportunities
- To deliver high-quality In Work Support which effectively sustains young people for a minimum of six months by engaging and maintaining regular contact with young people at agreed intervals to ensure they sustain their job or apprenticeship/training
- To ensure young people demonstrate and sustain progression into apprenticeships and employment or education
- To promote and attend marketing events at local Employability partner Events, Job Fairs.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract

**Salary**: £22,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Flexitime
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Clydebank: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Clydebank

Application deadline: 18/04/2023

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