Position: Job Coach
Salary: £26,043 (Grade 7)
Hours: 36.25 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Beverley with Cross site travel expectation
Benefits of working for Linkage:
· 6 weeks paid annual leave (including bank holidays) increasing incrementally to 8 weeks with long service.
· Health and wellbeing support including employment, financial and mental health via an employee assistance programme (BHSF)
· Eligibility for a Blue Light Card (£4.99 for 2 years' membership)
· Linkage Lottery cash prizes
· Long Service bonus every 5 years
· Recommend a friend bonus
About the role:
Linkage Community Trust are looking for a Job Coach to join the Employability Team.
They will provide a personalised support service which provides the people we support with the skills, motivation and confidence to enable them to move into suitable sustainable employment and provide an In Work support service through a variety of options including regular telephone contact, face to face visits, mentoring, job coaching and in depth support.
As part of the role applicants will be expected to manage a caseload of people we support, providing encouragement and co-ordination of activities including development planning, effective monitoring and guidance that will ensure progression to employment, with the emphasis on movement to wards sustained unsupported employment where appropriate.
Applicants will need to have experience of working with people with learning disabilities and or autism and have knowledge of employment and as working as a job coach.
Applicants will need to work cross site and use of own vehicle will be required
About Linkage:
Do you share our values of Independence, Respect, Honesty and Teamwork?
Linkage Community Trust is a learning disabilities charity and a values based organisation. Our values are central to providing high quality, personalised and effective care, support and education to the people we support. As an employer, we are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer.
You will be joining a 700 plus strong team of staff and volunteers who are working county wide including in the Lincoln, Spilsby, Skegness, Louth, Mablethorpe and Grimsby areas.
You can initially apply by CV. Should you do this you will be asked to complete an application form for our safer recruitment process. Communication is undertaken via email, we advise you check your inbox and junk mail. Should you be offered a role you will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check.
Linkage Community Trust do not hold a sponsorship licence and therefore are unable to consider applications from overseas or from people looking for sponsorship.
As an equal opportunities employer, Linkage Community Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Linkage
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £26,043.00 per year
Work Location: On the road