Skills and Development Coach – Employability

Skills and Development Coach – Employability

Job Title: Skills and Development Coach – Employability

Operational Team: Apprenticeships and Commercial

Location: Working from home, with travel within an 80-mile radius

Reports To: Delivery Manager

Accountable To: Head of Apprenticeships and Commercial

Liaises With: Delivery managers, Curriculum leads, Head of Quality, Quality Assurance Leads, Head of Business Development, delivery teams, claims and compliance, finance, and centre admin.

Working Hours: Monday to Friday - 37.5 hrs a week

Salary: Band A to C - £31,500 to - £42,500 subject to previously achieved Assessor / Teaching qualifications.

As a Skills and Development Coach (Employability), you will be responsible for delivering high-quality coaching, teaching, and assessment across the Level 4 Employability Practitioner Apprenticeship programme and other apprenticeship programmes relevant to your occupational background. You will tailor delivery to meet customer requirements and achieve positive outcomes for learners.

We are seeking a Supported Employment Specialist to coach, mentor and develop colleagues delivering employment support programmes. The successful candidate will be responsible for building practitioner confidence and capability, sharing best practice, supporting quality improvement and ensuring Supported Employment approaches are embedded across our provision.
You will model Dynamic’s values and inclusive behaviours while guiding each learner through a personalised journey, recognising prior learning, building knowledge and competence, and preparing them for successful, timely programme and End Point Assessment completion. Your work includes curriculum design, planning learning, delivering sessions, assessing performance, giving constructive feedback, and closely tracking progress so learners develop the skills needed to progress into future responsibilities in the employability sector.

Please note: This role is specifically for an experienced Supported Employment specialist who can train, coach and develop other professionals in Supported Employment practice. We are seeking candidates with significant knowledge of Supported Employment methodologies and experience of embedding best practice within teams. This is not a standard Employability Coach role.

Key Responsibilities

Learner Support, Coaching and Delivery

• Deliver high-quality coaching, teaching and assessment for the Employability Practitioner Level 4 Apprenticeship and other relevant programmes aligned to your occupational expertise.
• Support learners through a structured onboarding process, including Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) assessment.
• Develop, implement and review individual learning plans and off-the-job training plans, ensuring they are completed on time and reviewed at least quarterly.
• Deliver engaging, informative and challenging learning experiences that meet programme requirements and employer needs.
• Motivate, coach and support learners to achieve timely completion and positive outcomes through effective programme planning and regular engagement.
• Embed career development and progression discussions throughout the learner journey.
• Support the delivery and promotion of Functional Skills through effective collaboration with specialist teams.
• Monitor learner caseloads, identifying risks to progress and implementing timely interventions.
• Lead tripartite reviews with learners and employers to evaluate progress, agree actions and maintain engagement.

Assessment and End Point Assessment Preparation

• Conduct assessment activities in accordance with awarding organisation, apprenticeship and company quality standards.
• Prepare learners for gateway and End Point Assessment (EPA) through structured preparation activities, mock assessments and portfolio reviews.
• Ensure learners are fully prepared, confident and equipped to achieve successful apprenticeship assessment outcomes.
• Ensure assessment evidence is valid, reliable and meets the requirements of awarding organisations and EPA bodies.

Additional Learning Support, Safeguarding and Inclusion

• Identify additional learning needs and implement appropriate support strategies and reasonable adjustments.
• Embed safeguarding, Prevent, wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion throughout all aspects of delivery.
• Promote inclusive practice by celebrating diversity, challenging bias and ensuring representation within learning materials and activities.
• Support learners through their personal development, CIAG (Careers Information, Advice and Guidance) and wider employability journey.

Quality, Compliance and Improvement

• Maintain accurate, timely and compliant learner records in line with funding, audit and quality requirements.
• Deliver formal progress reviews that clearly demonstrate achievement, progress, distance travelled and planned next steps.
• Ensure compliance with apprenticeship funding rules, quality standards, safeguarding requirements, GDPR, Equality Act and Health and Safety legislation.
• Follow procedures relating to learners at risk, breaks in learning, withdrawals and other learner management processes.
• Contribute to quality improvement activities and support the implementation of learning technologies and innovative teaching, learning and assessment practices.
• Maintain and uphold organisational policies, procedures, quality assurance processes and codes of practice.

Professional Responsibilities

• Demonstrate excellent organisational and time-management skills to effectively manage workload and learner caseloads.
• Undertake continuous professional development to maintain occupational competence and teaching, coaching and assessment expertise.
• Carry out any other duties appropriate to the role and level of responsibility.

Essential Experience and Knowledge

• Experience of delivering, coaching or assessing apprenticeships, ideally at Level 4 or above.
• Demonstrable experience of applying the Supported Employment Model, including Systematic Instruction, supported by relevant training and/or professional development.
• Experience working with Employability Practitioners, Job Coaches or similar roles.
• Experience coaching and delivering remote learning and assessment to adult learners.
• Knowledge of apprenticeship quality frameworks, Ofsted expectations and funding requirements.
• Experience using e-portfolio systems, virtual learning environments and other digital learning technologies.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, Prevent, equality, diversity and inclusion, and learner support practices.

Person Specification

A – Application

I – Interview

Dynamic Values:

• Integrity
• Transparency
• Accountability
• Teamwork
• Inclusion
• Comply fully with the organisations equal opportunities policy & proactively promote equality of opportunity within workplace.
• Discuss concerns relating to equality of opportunity or safeguarding to the managing director and act as agreed to tackle discrimination.
• Communicate any health & safety and security concerns at work.

Dynamic Training is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief or marital status. If you are selected for an interview and have special requirements due to a disability, please let us know so that we can make any necessary adjustments.
The job description sets out the main duties of the post. Such duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility entailed.

An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, free of any disqualifying convictions or cautions, is required for this role due to the educational setting.