Job Description
The role of Young Person's Career Coach is an excellent opportunity to provide tailored employability support to a caseload of young people, managing and developing their skills to encourage progression into sustainable employment and apprenticeships.
Main Duties and Accountabilities
* Assessing needs of young people, to understand their barriers, career ambitions, development areas, training opportunities. Developing strategic relationships with key stakeholders to identify new employability programmers
* Managing a small caseload of young people with career plans and progression, accurately identifying their needs, challenges, career ambitions, strengths, and development areas, and signposting where relevant.
* Delivering high-quality in-work support, and advice and guidance, for young people on our employability programmes, that sustains participants for an appropriate amount of time, ensuring that participants sustain progression into apprenticeships and sustained employment.
* Running group work sessions such as interview techniques, job searches, CV improvements, and confidence building, to support and motivate young people, preparing them to a high standard for interview with employers.
* Completing goal focused action plans for young people, preparing CVs, cover letters, job/apprenticeship application forms, job packs, undertaking job searches with participants, and arranging interviews where appropriate.
* As a key outreach link, developing strategic relationships with key stakeholders, and engaging with the local community, to successfully identify young people for employability programmes – this includes supporting the delivery of any relevant events, job fairs, workshops, and seminars.
* Collating, completing, and demonstrating case studies, monitoring, and data inputting, ensuring timely input and communication of key documents and information, to ensure high contractual compliance standards, and effective delivery of operational KPI targets.
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Qualifications
We are looking for someone with the following skills and experience:
* 5 GCSE's at Grade C or above, or equivalent.
* Good ICT skills including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc).
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to gain people’s confidence, and put them at ease.
* Flexible, adaptable, persuasive, and patient, with a positive approach to problem solving, and a can-do attitude.
* Target and results driven, with good organisational and administrative skills, and the ability to prioritise.
* Able to effectively cope with pressure, working to deadlines to produce reports.
* Experience of working in the employment sector.
Additional Information
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Hours of work: Full time, 37 hours per week - shift working hours Monday - Friday 10am-6pm and 11am-7pm
Contract: Permanent
Location: The Hive, London (South Hampstead)
*This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice will be followed and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
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Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.
At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.
Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.
If you are applying for this role and are care experienced/care leaver, Catch22 offers a mentor to assist with the application process. Please contact cath.forshaw@catch-22.org.uk if you would like to find out more about this support. This information will not be passed to the team recruiting for this position. For more information about the Propel Programme and a guide for candidates who wish to join the programme, please see here. You can also watch an animation on the programme here .