Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Fixed term until 31st March 2025
Location: Sandwell
To work with young people aged (16-25) on a 1-1 basis to assess their support needs and identify barriers preventing them from accessing training, volunteering or employment opportunities.
Key responsibilities
To design and deliver employability skills training including job search CV writing, interview skills and work ethics.
1. To provide continued support throughout the young person’s journey including longer term in-work support and to promote independence and confidence in the young person enabling them to undertake assigned meaningful work.
2. Manage a caseload, providing ongoing support to young people both through 1-1 and group engagement.
3. Provide financial literacy support through the completion of benefit checks, budgeting sheets, referrals where needed to more specialist services, for example health and wellbeing services and debt.
4. Keep abreast of all training, volunteering and employment opportunities in order to support young people to make informed decisions around their future goals and aspirations
5. Have regular contact (using a case work approach) with those you are supporting and take reasonable steps to reestablish contact if this is lost.
6. To have a knowledge of safeguarding issues relating to young people.
7. To ensur...