Restart Employment Coach

As an Employment Coach, you will be supporting individuals to progress into their chosen career paths by providing individual and specific advice, support and guidance, developing interview skills, explaining and developing job search methods and re-building participant confidence following a period of unemployment. You will be working with the individual both face to face and remotely, to a positive outcome into suitable sustainable employment.

The role will also require an element of employer engagement to help identify vacancies for participants across South Lincolnshire and surrounding areas (including Stamford, Peterborough and King’s Lynn).

Maintain individual accurate participant records in line with GDPR requirements and the requirements of the contract.

You will be working closely with other teams within Steadfast’s employability, skills and business development directorate and develop and maintain excellent working knowledge of the South Holland employment market and relevant support agencies.

Working with participants face to face, via telephone and via video, you will coach and support their journey to employment by providing employability sessions, interview skills advice, job search methods and re-building participant confidence following a period of unemployment.

Devise and deliver a programme of employability (documented in a written Action Plan) with appropriate coaching and learning strategies, resources and assessments.

Maintain and enhance the quality of the support experience for participants.

Engaging employers, discussing their training and recruitment needs and matching the skills of the participants to appropriate job opportunities.

Sourcing live vacancies and other intelligence on local and regional labour market developments to support participants obtain sustainable employment.

Providing in-work and ongoing support to participants and employers.

Maintain participant records using the CRM system and record regular contact with your participants, keeping them motivated and focused for the duration of the programme.

Working with diagnostic screening, assessments and skills analysis will be critical to the guidance you provide, allowing participants to consider all options available to them to gain employment.

You will be supported by and work closely with, other specialists (including those in partner organisations) that may be required to work with your participants to provide specific advice, training and support in line with a tailored action plan.

Building an up-to-date working knowledge of the local labour market, training opportunities and relevant support agencies is essential for success in the role. You will get to know the local employers in your community, understanding what they are looking for in an employee and encouraging them to interview your participant.

Provide one to one coaching and support to provide individuals with a way forward to find suitable sustainable employment. Building relationships with participants, colleagues, employers and community groups.

Supporting job searching and actively supporting your participants. Helping your participants identify and develop their skills and abilities and to find suitable roles. Working in partnership with your participants to develop a clear journey into paid work.

To provide administrative support with the assessments of participants and scheduling of support provision.

**Salary**: Up to £28,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Temperature checks, hand sanitisation, Covid testing

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- employability and or education: 2 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)