Employment Coach - Milton Keynes Milton Keynes, England
Job description
More Than Just A Job.
Are you passionate about making a difference and want to join a commercial organisation with a social purpose?
Do you also want to work in an exciting, start-up environment where you will have the opportunity to help shape the company culture, be challenged, learn new skills and innovate?
If the answer is yes, we would love to hear from you.
Jobs 22 is an innovative newly formed company created by the national UK charity, Catch22 and the Angus Knight Group. Catch22 has designed and delivered services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities for over 200 years, and the Angus Knight Group is a major provider of human services across Australia and a skills provider in the UK. We work closely with our sister companies Healthfind, who provide guidance and support on wellbeing and Learn Plus Us, who offer apprenticeships for various opportunities.
With the support and experience of these established organisations, we are building a new approach to helping individuals who may have been out of work for a significant period of time, to find employment.
We have a dedicated team of employment coaches, skills trainers, health advisors and labour market analysts, all focused on inspiring and motivating individuals to overcome barriers they may have to get back into meaningful and sustainable employment.
As part of a new government initiative, we are working with employers, local government and other partners to deliver tailored support for individuals across several parts of the UK.
Our mission is to deliver a thoughtful, effective and commercial approach to helping individuals create better lives for themselves and their local communities, through work.
About the Role
As an Employment Coach, you will be supporting individuals to progress into their chosen career paths by providing advice, support and guidance by use of assessments and implementing tailored support plans, which would need to be smart, tailored to individual needs.
Working with participants face to face, you will coach and support their journey to employment by providing employability sessions, interview skills advice, job search method, re-building participant confidence following a period of unemployment and identifying correct interventions that will remove barriers and enable them to regain employment as monthly targets will be a part of your role for you to achieve.
You will maintain participant records using the Jobs 22 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.
To be familiar with the local area 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.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required
- Experience in providing one-to-one support or coaching and positively influencing other peoples professional or personal development.
- Experience of working in the employment and skills sector and delivering to specified targets, quality standards and compliance measures is essential.
- Experience of using motivational and action planning techniques to manage the progression of participants into sustainable work opportunities.
- The empathy it takes to engage with all sorts of people, and the confidence to challenge them if you need to.
- The ability to handle complex cases at the same time in an environment where you will have targets to achieve.
- The need to be organised and be able to manage time effectively and ensure monthly targets are achieved.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to motivate and inspire others.
- An influencing approach, especially when it comes to bringing other people around to your way of thinking.
- The need to have a good understanding of the local and regional labour market.
- A practical understanding of the recruitment and selection processes.
- You should be comfortable to do some local travel, and using a range of digital channels including phone, video conferencing and email.
- Good administration, IT and good experience of using MS office software.
- Desire to work in a newly formed organisation where there is a need to be both creative and pragmatic.
Additional Information
We value the dedication and commitment of our employees by rewarding them with market leading pay and benefits. In addition, Jobs 22 provides comprehensive training, mentoring and the opportunity for progression in a new, exciting and vibrant organisation.
Some of our benefits include:
- GymFlex and Cycle To Work
- Performance Bonus Scheme
- Value and Recognition Bonus Scheme
- Buy and Sell Annual Leave
- Length Of Service Recognition
- You 22 (Reward Gateway)
- Employee Wellbeing Service
The Application Process
If you would like to be considered for this role, please ensure your CV is accompanied by a covering letter (explaining your interest in the role and Jobs 22) when applying.
We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services.
At Jobs 22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
