Employability Coordinator

3 weeks ago


Blackburn, United Kingdom Blackburn Youth Zone Full time

**Youth Hub**

**Role Profile**

Position: Employability Coordinator

Reports to: Employability Service Lead

Location: Blackburn Youth Zone and Satellite sites

Status: Full time. 37.5 hours per week over 5 days

**Salary**: Negotiable based on experience

Blackburn Youth Zone (BYZ) is a 21st century youth facility located at the heart of Blackburn and serving the Blackburn with Darwen Unitary Authority area. BYZ is accessible to young people between 5 and 25 and exists to inspire them to have fun, meet different people, try new things and challenge themselves to be the best they can be. BYZ aspires to be at the heart of the community, collaborating to create a more cohesive and prosperous Blackburn and Darwen.

The Youth Zone has for many years, worked to develop the personal aspirations and skills of local young people to enable them to progress to live a happy, rich and rewarding lives. Central to these aspirations is the support of young people in their preparations for the world of work.

Following a competitive process, Blackburn Youth Zone has been selected to be a flagship ‘Youth Hub’, a national initiative championed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP.) A number of other key funders expressed their desire to address aspirations, skills and employment inequalities for local young people and these ambitions together, have led to the formation of a new Youth employment Hub for Blackburn with Darwen.

The Youth Hub will encourage young people to aspire to be the very best that they can be and then provide the support necessary to gain the skills employers need for the local workforce of the future. In doing so, the Youth Hub will enable young people to convert their dreams into tangible opportunities.

Your role will be critical in supporting young people to achieve their career and life potential. You will work as part of a close team of employability coordinators, health and wellbeing key workers and partnership coordinators. You will maintain geographical responsibility for an area of Blackburn with Darwen supported by your wider team and will have day to day engagement with a wide range of key partnership staff including DWP case workers and other delivery associates.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Build and maintain strong relations with stakeholders
- facilitate communications between partnered businesses
- Attain agreed targets as well as other key performance indicators
- Mentoring of young people in their employment journey
- Facilitating employment, education and training referrals to Youth Hub partners
- Building trusting relationships with young people to enable support when things get tough
- Signposting to other support services when these are required
- Developing, agreeing and monitoring personal development plans
- Supporting young people into sustained employment
- Delivery of targeted programmes to support 16-24 NEET young people
- Maintenance of detailed case files
- Capturing distance travelled and other performance data

**Skills and Experience**
- Experience of supporting employability in a youth setting
- Skills to make instant connections with young people
- Mentoring experience
- Experience of NEET young people and the challenges they face
- Experience in operating within a multi-agency environment
- Coaching skills (In any context)
- Experience of performance monitoring and reporting
- An in-depth understanding of the strength that diversity brings in building an inclusive society
- Expert at managing the safeguarding of young people

We seek a diverse workforce and therefore are open to a range of backgrounds and experience. However seek an individual who is proactive, organised and resilient to deal with the varying demands of the role.

**Salary**: £23,000.00-£25,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Blackburn, BB1 1EP: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: EMP COO JB/BYZ
Expected start date: 30/01/2023


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