Employability Trainer

**Programme: Restart**

**Contract: Permanent**

**Hours: 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday**

**Starting Salary: £25,500 **_(Dependant on experience)_

**About the role**:
We are currently seeking an Employability Trainer to deliver a suite of development courses, assisting individuals to improve specific skills and move them closer to their personal goals, and/or closer to employment. You will take a key role in the engagement of participants prior to course attendance, in order to support well populated and high value training interventions. The role will also involve the delivery of the training cycle, collaborating with colleagues to establish training needs for our participant groups, followed by design and delivery of session content. Finally, the monitoring of impact and evaluation of training will form part of the activity led by the role. This position requires strong interpersonal skills, a passion for education, and the ability to adapt teaching methods to meet the diverse needs / learning styles of those in attendance.

Applicants for this post should have drive, enthusiasm and possess good interpersonal and organisational skills. You should have experience of working in a customer facing environment, as a people centred approach is vital. Applicants must be mobile throughout the region as this role may include travelling to premises across Tees Valley.

All our contracts are commissioner led, meaning we must adhere to strict quality and compliance regimes. You will therefore have a keen eye for detail with excellent administrative skills and experience of creating high quality learning materials. Evaluation of your courses will be essential in ensuring these are adding value to our participant group and supporting them to move forward towards their personal goal(s). You will also have a continuous improvement mindset, striving for excellence and taking pride in the work you and your fellow colleagues deliver. Sharing ideas and best practice will come naturally to you as will taking on additional or different tasks to get the job done to the highest of standards.

**Role themes**: People Motivation | Training and Delivery | Quality & Continuous Improvement

**Required criteria**:

- Proven experience in delivering training, coaching or developing others
- Training qualification such as PTTLS, Education & Training or CAVA (or willingness to work towards one within the role.)
- Performance driven with the ability to work to various targets including performance and quality measures
- Experience as a trainer / facilitator
- Experience of being accountable for own work e.g. delivery of required courses in a professional and timely fashion
- Excellent communicator both verbal and written
- Personal skills include creativity, being inspirational/able to create a personal impact, being able to command attention/control a situation/committed/highly motivated
- Be able to demonstrate a true passion for improving the lives of others
- A value’s driven individual
- Passionate about transforming people’s lives through teaching and learning

**Desirable criteria**:

- Training and development experience for 1 years or more
- Delivery of the training cycle (Training Needs Analysis - Training Design - Training Delivery - Training Evaluation)
- Experience of teaching qualifications across various sectors
- Keen interest in self-development
- Coming from a similar recent role
- Exposure of individuals with multiple or complex barriers, which may include incapacity benefit claimants, single parents, those with criminal records, mental health groups, those with specific disabilities
- Knowledge of welfare / benefits system
- Experience creating engaging and interactive lesson plans that align with the learners’ goals, incorporating a variety of teaching materials, resources, and activities
- Previous work with diverse student populations

**About the successful applicant**:

- Thrive in a people-centric environment
- Interest in self-development
- Values driven
- Compassionate with a true desire for helping people succeed
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Sharing ideas and best practice will come naturally to you
- Will go the extra mile to get the job done to the highest of standards

**More details about the role**:

- Create a positive and inclusive learning environment that encourages learners participation
- Identify and address the unique learning needs of each learner, offering personalised support to help them overcome language barriers and achieve their learning objectives
- Engaging participants as willing learners
- Selling the benefits of attendance to the target audience to ensure positive attendance levels are achieved
- Outstanding people skills with the ability to negotiate and motivate through action
- Able to identify and deploy effective solutions to ensure all learners can achieve
- Possess a true passion for supporting and positively impacting the lives of others
- You will be comfortable su