ABOUT THE ROLE:
We're looking for an Employment Coach to join our growing team of employment and wellbeing specialists who all strive to improve the life chances of the people they support, delivering lasting and impactful change.
Within your role in the team, you will support a caseload of adults through 1:1 coaching, guidance, and group work, helping them build independence, improve wellbeing, and achieve positive outcomes such as volunteering, further education, or paid employment.
In addition, you'll engage with employers, partners, and training providers ensuring the people we support have access to opportunities that enable them to build their skills and realise their potential.
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THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:
This role will suit someone with a strong background in guidance or welfare-to-work, who has a proven record of helping people into jobs and achieving outcome targets, remaining focused on the best outcomes for the individual throughout.
You'll be confident in building effective referral networks and partnerships, while also bringing experience in training or mentoring others.
We're looking for a skilled communicator who knows how to motivate and engage people, supported by solid organisational and project management skills.
A good understanding of the local labour market and recruitment processes will be key to helping people succeed, and you'll be comfortable using IT systems like MS Office, with the flexibility to pick up new software as needed.
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. As a Gold Award Employer Recognition Scheme holder with the Armed Forces Covenant, we also offer a guaranteed interview to veterans who meet the essential criteria for the role.
At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.
Part time or full time will be considered. Full time is 36.40 hours per week
Based at Groundwork offices in Trafford Park or Ashton-under-Lyne and/or community base within Greater Manchester. (delete / define community base as appropriate))
We aim to support a healthy work-life balance. As such we operate a flexi-time system and part-time and flexible working options are available. We are happy to discuss preferred working arrangements with candidates within the parameters of the role requirements.
Overview of the Post
Through a mixture of 121 coaching, guidance and group work the post holder will recruit and support a caseload of adults, to develop and promote independence, regaining and building on social skills, promoting health and well-being, and enabling individuals to achieve positive outcomes through securing voluntary opportunities, educational progression, and paid employment. The post holder will be responsible for building partnerships, including with employers to identify a sustained pipeline of job opportunities and understand local needs. The post holder will deliver activity within different employment and skills contracts. The post holder will always be set clear targets relating to starts and outcomes for each specific contract or project they work on at Groundwork.
Delivery
· Delivering all aspects of Employment and Wellbeing programmes including recruitment, one to one and group coaching and delivering short training courses, workshop and information sessions focused on employability and wellbeing skills
· Uses Groundwork GM and external funder's databases and monitoring mechanisms
Business & Service Development
· To build partnerships, including with employers, to support effective service delivery and identify a sustained pipeline of opportunities, including employment opportunities
· Identify opportunities
· Support development of employment and wellbeing services
Use internal and external data relating to employment and wellbeing services, and shares learning within team to inform service development & practise
Financial & Resource Management
· Responsible for managing project budgets and planning for effective use of resources for delivery
· Supports development and delivery of financial sustainability plans for wellbeing and skills related projects and thematic programmes
People Management & Development
· Line management of volunteers or trainees
· Shares specialist skills and knowledge with others
· Embeds culture and values through own behaviours and providing supportive challenge to others
To apply for this role, please download the forms from our website and return them to
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £25,287.00 per year
Benefits:
* Additional leave
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Flexitime
* Free parking
* Health & wellbeing programme
* Sick pay
* Work from home
Work Location: In person