Restart Employment Coach

Restart Employment Coach
Leicester
Salary up to £28,000.00 per annum – experience dependent

As an Employment Coach, you will be supporting individuals who have been in long-term unemployment. You will address the barriers to gaining new employment with tailored support for each individual to achieve and sustain good work, including supported job search, re-training for a different sector and restoring self-confidence for work.

You will be able to guide, inspire, and encourage individuals to find suitable employment. You will have a high level of initiative and motivation with the ability to seek out solutions to problems and be able to work under pressure, without day-to-day supervision.

You should also have experience working in an advising and guidance environment, or previously worked within employability.

Key Responsibilities

• Meet, and strive to exceed, personal performance targets (Key Performance Indicators).
• Progressively manage a caseload of referred customers using a variety of appropriate strategies to help them overcome barriers to gaining employment.
• Facilitate a range of assessments with each individual, using a suite of tools, to fully understand a customer’s personal circumstances, ambitions and goals.
• Where required, provide appropriate advice and guidance on the basics of self-employment and signpost customers to specialist agencies that can further support customers in respect to self-employment.

Skills and Experience
Essential

• A good working knowledge of the local labour market in the specified geographical locations.
• Basic knowledge of self-employment.
• Experience of working in a target-driven environment.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the employability industry / Welfare2Work (W2W).
• Knowledge of the recruitment industry.
• Experience of working with people in the provision of ‘information, advice & guidance’.

Benefits:25 days annual leave + bank holidays + Birthday day off; Pension contributions; Career development opportunities; plus more.

Please Note:
The successful candidate must be able to work in the UK.

Twin is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the DBS, where appropriate.

We are dedicated to ensuring that all job applicants and members of staff are treated equally, without discrimination on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.

Disability Confident Employer.
Disabled applicants should indicate in the Equality of Opportunity section of the application form if they wish their application to be given consideration under the Disability Confident scheme.
If you are invited to interview, please advise the recruitment administrator what adjustment you would require at the interview in as much detail as possible to enable arrangements to be put into place.
We ask all applicants if they want to be considered under this scheme. By opting-in to this scheme, you are disclosing that you have a disability solely for the purpose of the interview guarantee and we will not assume nor infer that you wish to disclose or record your disability in any other way – including any reasonable adjustments you may need if you are employed.

Access to work scheme
You can apply for Access to Work if you need support to get back to work.
You can apply using the online service.
They can also apply by phoning Jobcentre Plus on:
Telephone: 0800 121 7479
Textphone: 0800 121 7579
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