Employability Coach

**For more information on the role,**
**please contact Rachel Osborne or Bryony Dolby**
**Telephone**:
07901103295 **or **07407643872

**Contract**:

- Permanent

**Location**:
**#Care to join us?**

We are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting over 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams.

About the role

As an Employability Coach at Hft you’ll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible, by supporting them to achieve goals and aspirations around paid employment. In this creative and rewarding role, you will enable people to develop and acquire relevant skills needed for the workplace, support them to gain work experience, and help them to find long term paid employment. You will provide innovative and high quality support during three on-site work placements for each person you are supporting. You will be helping to ensure that the people we support:

- Have the opportunity to develop relevant skills for employment
- Gain work experience in a large business
- Increase their independence
- Achieve their aspirations
- Are empowered to make decisions and choices around their future employment
- Are kept safe

About you

You will have a ‘Can Do’ attitude, be driven and enthusiastic about helping people with learning disabilities to meet their aspirations. You will have the ability to look for creative solutions to meet people's support needs in a way that respects their individuality. You will work be able to work well using your own initiative and in partnership with colleagues from partner organisations, and with Hft’s Work Options Manager.

As an Employability Coach at Project SEARCH, you will usually work Mon-Fri during office hours, however you will need to be open to flexible working which may involve some occasional evening and weekend work.

What we offer

We offer a range of benefits and career development opportunities. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training and support along the way. With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in our teams to ensure they have the specialist skills they need.

**Benefits**:

- Access to the Hft Plus benefits package, which includes a great number of discounts and rewards across shops, restaurants, gym membership and days out; but also an Employee Assistance Programme, with telephone and face-to-face support options
- Access to award winning training and development - Hft is one of only four charities to have achieved the Skills for Care ‘Centre of Excellence’ provider status
- Annual staff award scheme - The Fusion Awards, and peer recognition through our GEM awards programme
- 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) (pro rata for part time staff)
- A contributory pension scheme & life assurance
- Free DBS Check

**_Find your place with us and change lives._**
- We ask all our teams to take advantage of the Covid-19 vaccination, which is offered to frontline support workers as a priority group._
- We strongly encourage all colleagues to remain fully vaccinated as part of our wider infection control procedures. This includes Central Support Services colleagues as they may be required to visit services as part of their work and/or work alongside colleagues who do._

**Salary**: £23,111.06 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Gym membership
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discounts
- Wellness programmes

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Lancaster, Lancashire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Reference ID: 005046