Engagement & Inclusion Coach - Scotland FTC

Are you passionate about helping individuals rebuild their futures through education and employment? Do you have the confidence, enthusiasm, and creativity to engage and inspire learners within a prison setting? We are looking for a dynamic and motivated Engagement and Inclusion Coach to join our prison education team in Scotland. This role involves travelling within areas: Edinburgh, Perth, Grampian, Inverness, Castle Huntly.

You will work across multiple touchpoints including learner inductions, residential halls, and prison events like careers fairs using a trauma-informed approach to build trust, understand individual goals, and guide learners towards education and employment opportunities.

As an Engagement and Inclusion Coach, you will:

• Lead engaging learner inductions, ensuring a supportive introduction to prison education and employment pathways.
• Advocate for education as a tool for rehabilitation and career development, helping learners see how it aligns with prison employment opportunities.
• Engage learners across different settings, from residential halls to prison events, fostering motivation and participation.
• Support initial assessments, including BKSB Maths & English, ALN assessments, and the Employability Diagnostic Questionnaire (EDQ).
• Work closely with Careers Information, Advice, and Guidance (CIAG), SPS staff, Vocational/Industries teams, and employability partners, including the DWP, to ensure a structured and supportive learner journey.
• Provide pastoral care, addressing barriers to engagement and supporting emotional and academic growth.
• Encourage participation in learner forums and lived experience sessions, empowering individuals to share and contribute to their development.
• Champion restorative practices, helping learners take accountability for their actions and develop constructive behaviours for rehabilitation.

We are looking for:

• A relevant qualification in coaching, mentoring, or education (or working towards one).
• Level 2 Maths & English (or Scottish National Level 4 equivalent).
• Experience in coaching, mentoring, or teaching ideally within a prison, rehabilitation, or employability setting.
• An excellent communicator with strong relationship-building and collaboration skills and a strong presence with the ability to inspire learners.
• Able to develop innovative ways to engage learners.
• Able to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people's lives every single day. We use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year. Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.

We are extremely proud to be a Gold accredited Investors in People organisation. This demonstrates our commitment to creating the very best environment and culture for our colleagues to succeed and thrive. We are committed to transforming the lives of people with convictions through our work in prisons. Our services have been designed to tackle the underlying causes of offending behaviour so people can make positive changes to their lives.

With more than 500 people working to support people with convictions in custody and in the community, we bring passion, experience and innovation to public sector rehabilitation services. We also work with specialist partner organisations to help people move away from their past and look forward to a brighter future.

All of our services are designed in partnership with the people who we are trying to help and away from our direct work with people serving their sentences, we are working hard to change attitudes towards people who can often be tarnished unfairly following criminal convictions.

Our Social Recruitment Framework brings together organisations to tackle any pre-conceived ideas about hiring people who have previously been involved in crime. We also work with employers on the Ban the Box initiative to support fair and equal recruitment processes and have engaged industry to influence our employer-led curriculum delivered to our learners.