Employability Coach

Job Title

**Employability Coach (x 2 positions)**

Reporting To:
**Programme Manager - East Birmingham Locality Jobs and Skills Hub**

Contract Type:
**Location**:
**From DRC's premises, the East Birmingham Jobs and Skills Hub and other community venues**

**Salary**:
**NJC Scale Point 12 Currently £26,063.96**

Working Hours

**36.5 hours per week
**Job Outline**:
Under the direction of the Programme Manager - to effectively deliver an employability programme for inactive & unemployed residents within targeted wards in the East of Birmingham.

The UKSPF East Birmingham Jobs and Skills Hub is an innovative, life-changing programme helping economically inactive and unemployed individuals overcome barriers to employment. This role will include delivering information, advice, and guidance on a wide range of issues to groups of beneficiaries as well as working with them on a one-to-one basis to move them towards and into employment and collaborating with local employers to generate employment and local work experience opportunities.

**Key Tasks**:

- To target the recruitment of eligible clients in specific wards in the East Birmingham area.
- To carry out teaching and learning activities required to progress clients to further learning and/or employment.
- To provide 1 to 1 support beneficiaries to achieve client assessment, action planning, milestones, and target setting.
- Develop links with further learning providers to establish pathways for clients into enhanced learning that will support both entry into and retention in employment.
- To assist Programme Manager in the development of the East Birmingham Job and Skills Hub Service delivering employability skills workshops and weekly Job and Skills Hub to progress clients to obtaining work experience, voluntary placements, further education or training and opportunities for employment.
- Develop direct links with employers and employer agencies to access job opportunities, traineeships, and apprenticeships for the beneficiaries, for example, local colleges, training providers and external employment services such as available Apprenticeship Schemes, National Careers Service, Careers IAG, Employer Pathways, Adult Education and Skills Training.
- To create client files that evidence entry information, learning progress, achievement (inc. certificates, letters of appointment) and exit information.
- To support clients to access a range of services and activities to promote social engagement and improved health of wellbeing, delivered both within and outside of the Disability Resource Centre relevant to their individual needs.
- To assist those clients who are ready in job search; to provide intensive job support when required, to arrange work/learning tasters and volunteer/work experience placements and to refer clients on as appropriate for further support or to training or development opportunities.
- To provide post-employment support to those clients who have gained employment.

To ensure that the DRC’s informational resources are accurate, up-to-date, and meet the needs of clients.
- To actively participate in the marketing and publicity of DRC and its services including organising displays, events, and exhibitions.
- To collate client information and statistics and produce reports and returns by the set deadlines for the Programme Manager, Head of Service, and funders. This should include evaluation data and measurements of the short
- and long-term impact of the project.
- To undertake outreach work at various community-based locations to promote the service, provide locality-based support to clients and to maximise referrals.
- To be aware of and comply with the DRC’s policies and procedures including equality & diversity, health and safety, data protection, equal opportunities, and safeguarding.
- To ensure your own continuing professional development by attending relevant meetings, undergoing training, attending conferences and seminars and by any other appropriate means. In addition, attending CPD events, training courses, meetings seminars and conferences appropriate to the role for development.
- To work effectively as part of the team and be flexible and responsive to changing client needs and DRC requirements.
- To undertake any other delegated duties as may be required from time to time, which are commensurate with the nature and grading of the post. To perform any other duties that may be required in line with current duties to help to develop or expand the service.
- To assess individual support needs related to work which might typically include help with benefits including back to work calculations, travel to work, managing health at work etc. signposting for further support needs utilising local networks to help them overcome their barriers to employment.
- To source job opportunities for clients through tailored job search and regular contact with employers, accessing the hidden labour market to unlock potential jobs that match wit