Employment Coach in Spalding

Our employment coaches have two key skills – the ability to deliver 1-2-1 support to help people plan and reach their goals, and the ability to teach groups to help people gain skills to achieve their goals. Each role is 50/50 to ensure we continue to support people and deliver training that’s fit for people’s aspirations.

Every coach has a core subject specialism they can teach and are qualified to deliver through numerous levels so we can offer progression to our customers. Additionally, all deliver a wide and varied curriculum around life skills, enrichment, wellbeing and employability – all core to our curriculum.

As an Employment Coach, a typical day might include:

• Engage and recruit eligible participants to employment, skills and wellbeing programmes, identifying the most appropriate starting point for each person.
• Complete robust initial and ongoing assessments, identify strengths, aspirations and barriers, and agree personalised action plans with clear, achievable goals.
• Manage a caseload throughout the participant journey, maintaining regular contact, reviewing progress and coordinating timely interventions that support attendance, achievement, progression and sustained employment.
• Provide effective one-to-one coaching and group learning in employability, confidence, wellbeing, digital skills and workplace readiness, adapting delivery to individual needs.
• Support participants to create CVs, complete applications, search and apply for vacancies, prepare for interviews and assessments, and use online job-search tools confidently.
• Use labour-market information to help participants explore realistic career pathways and progress into employment, education, accredited or non-accredited learning, Functional Skills, vocational training, apprenticeships, volunteering or work experience.
• Build productive relationships with employers and partners to create vacancies, presentations, workplace visits, work tasters, mentoring, job fairs, work trials and other progression opportunities.
• Provide flexible face-to-face, telephone, digital and outreach support, including activity in rural and disadvantaged communities and appropriate in-work support for participants and employers.
• Maintain accurate, timely and compliant participant records, evidence and monitoring information, and report on performance, outcomes, success stories, risks and areas for improvement.
• Meet agreed quality and performance targets while embedding safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion, trauma-informed practice, health and safety, data protection and quality assurance in all activity.

• Delivering an effective and motivating curriculum as directed across sites as required
• Ensuring our curriculum intent is embedded in all teaching, and sequencing is achieved through all delivery
• Supporting the creation of schemes of work, lesson plans and appropriate teaching resources for own teaching sessions
• Complete funding paperwork and other admin duties as required in line with guidelines.

Your role is all about helping people improve their employability options by overcoming multiple and complex barriers. You have the opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives. The more you put in the more you get out

The must haves:

• A willingness and ability to deliver a range of courses beyond your primary area of expertise with an enthusiasm to develop your skills to adapt our delivery to the needs of our learners.
• Are comfortable with, and can deliver, both 1-2-1 and group sessions in their role.
• L3 Award in Education and Training (formerly PTLLS) or Teaching qualification, and/or willingness to undergo further training.
• An understanding of the principles underpinning teaching adults, i.e., planning, delivery, assessment and evaluation of learning.
• Experience of professionally engaging with adults and children.
• A genuine commitment to the personal and occupational success of the long-term unemployed.
• Ability to work as a team, under pressure and in a fast-paced environment.
• A good understanding of the barriers faced by unemployed and inactive people, and the solutions that may be able to benefit them.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others, whether in the same team or external support providers.
• You’re a positive, energised and enthusiastic person, with a real zest for helping others.
• Engaging and supporting people is what gets you up every day
• Nothing makes you happier than seeing someone progress, knowing you helped them get there.

• Resilience. Working in the education, support and employment sectors is a challenging but rewarding career. You’ll be helping to bring real change to peoples’ lives.

The added extras:

• Qualifications in your subject specialism (to at least Level 3 equivalent), or an in-depth knowledge and substantial experience in the subject area.
• Qualification in Mentoring, Advice and Guidance or similar
• Ability to deal with challenging behaviour at times.

• An understanding of the different local services available for customers
• You’re interested in supporting the wider team with our wellbeing activities, learning opportunities or employment support – and have some skills to offer in this area.
• You’ll be adept at change, having got hands-on experience living and breathing new ways of working and knowing how to bring your colleagues along for the experience.

As soon as a suitable candidate is found for this role we reserve the right to close the job advert ahead of the closing date, so please do not delay in submitting your application.

As part of our commitment to safeguarding there will be numerous safeguarding checks that form part of the recruitment process including an Enhanced DBS check and you will be required to complete a self declaration form at interview stage. Please note this role is also exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from regulated activity.

Acis are committed to equality and diversity, are a proud member of disability confident and welcome applications from any applicant who feel they hold the essential skills to fulfil the role. We recognise that people need flexibility in their role and we’re happy to discuss flexible working options with the successful candidate in addition to any aid with interviewing that you might need