Follow On Job Coach

**Salary**:
Band 4, point 53- £31,827

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

**Start date**:
February 2025

6 January 2025

**Job overview**:
**Follow on Job Coach**

**Permanent, 52 weeks per year**

**37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)**

**Salary
- Band 4, point 53- £31,827**

**Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of autistic young people?**

Ambitious College is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Follow-On Job Coach to provide crucial support for our interns/graduates as they transition from our supported internships into the workplace. Your role will be instrumental in helping these individuals secure and maintain meaningful employment, maximising their independence, competence, and integration in the workplace.

Key Responsibilities:

- ** Job Search Assistance**: Guide our graduates/interns through the job search process, helping them identify suitable opportunities and navigate job listings.
- ** Job Coaching**: Offer personalised job coaching to graduates, ensuring they understand their roles, develop essential skills, and adapt to their work environments.
- ** Employer Support**: Collaborate with employers to create inclusive workspaces, providing advice and training to support both the employer and employee.
- ** Ongoing Support**: Maintain regular contact with graduates and employers to address any challenges, celebrate successes, and ensure sustainable employment.**.**

Why Join us?
- Generous Annual leave that can be taken during term time as well as College closure periods (up to two weeks at a time)
- Eye test vouchers, season ticket loans and a cycle to work scheme.
- Employee Assistance Programme, to help you balance your work, family, and personal life
- Continuous professional development including access to coaching and mentoring as well as e-learning and online training courses

**Start Date
- February 2025**

**Closing date
- Monday 6th January 2025**

**Interview Date
- week commencing Monday 13th January 2025**

**Please note some flexibility may be needed at points such as weekend working to further support our graduates**. **This role does not include a teacher's pension**

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.
- DBS Filter Guidance.

**About**Ambitious College**:
**Ambitious College**
- C/o West Thames College, London Road, Isleworth
- Middlesex
- TW7 4HS
- United Kingdom

+44 20 3873 2201

Ambitious College is a specialist day college for autistic young people aged 16 -25.

The college has two campuses co-located within mainstream colleges in north and west London. These are the Pears Campus at the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL) in Tottenham and the Pears Campus at West Thames College in Isleworth.

At each campus, there is a team of dedicated and passionate professionals including teachers, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, employment specialists, behaviour specialists and specialist support staff. Using the Ambitious Approach to education, they work together to come up with learning and support approaches tailored to the individual.

Through a range of partnerships with local businesses, community groups and mainstream partners, the college also offer opportunities to learn in the community. This combined approach - personalised education, positive support and real work experience - delivers results. It allows young people to achieve their goals, fulfil their potential and go on to lead active lives in their community.

**Head of College**:Linda Looney

**Values and vision**
- Ambitious about Autism

is the national charity for autistic children and young people. We offer specialist education and support through Ambitious College,
- TreeHouse School

, and
- The Rise School


Ambitious College's values define how we work and ensure that children and young people with autism are at the heart of all that we do. We think everyone is entitled to lead a fulfilling, happy, and rewarding life; and this includes young people with autism.

Our learners are at the heart of everything we do, their curriculum is highly personalised to help them achieve their goals. We operate a
- person-centered approach
- It is delivered by our highly skilled and friendly staff. We offer lots of opportunities to learn in the community through a range of partnerships with local employers, services, and our mainstream college partners.

As our name suggests, we are ambitious for our learners. We are a dedicated team of professionals who are passionate about our work in supporting young learners to live ordinary lives in their home community. We know that with the right opportunity and support they can achieve great things.

**Ofsted**

“Leaders, managers and governors have high ambitions and expectations for learners. Leaders and managers have developed a good curriculum offer which enables learners to study one of four pathways: engagement and interaction, maximum in