DPS - Employability Trainer/Mentor Northampton Sessional in Kingsthorpe

Role: DPS Employability Trainer/Mentor

Interested in this role You can find all the relevant information in the description below.
Salary: £26,000 (Sessional Role)
Contract type : Sessional
Working hours: Full Time (37.5 hrs pw)
Location: Northampton NN1 - NN5
( A full driving licence and access to a vehicle are required)
Standguide is an employee-owned organisation, which means our employees have a voice in the business and a shared interest in its long-term success.

Alongside a rewarding role where you can make a genuine difference, we offer:
33 days' paid annual leave, including bank holidays, increasing to 38 days after five full years' service

An additional paid day off for your birthday

Workplace pension scheme

Company health plan following successful completion of probation

Online GP access

Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling and wellbeing support

Death in service cover

Will-planning support and access to a secure digital vault

Cycle to Work scheme

Company sick pay, subject to eligibility

A broad range of internal training and continuing professional development opportunities

Access to employee-owner benefits, subject to eligibility and qualifying service

Make a difference through meaningful employment
To arrange, plan, organise, deliver a variety of Employability training courses. These could be generic job search, confidence and motivation programmes, or literacy and numeracy, to ensure that customers have the appropriate experience and practical skills to move into employment, training, or further education. To maintain paperwork (both electronic and paper based) and other documentation which may be required to a high standard. To job match customers to vacancies, arrange employer visits and work placement opportunities for customers with a view to them securing employment. To conduct one to one Action Planning and review meetings to ensure customers are focused on securing employment. To be responsible for achieving targets set by the Line Manager to ensure we meet contractual obligations. To be flexible in relation to delivery location to cover the contract areas.
About Standguide
For more than three decades, Standguide has supported individuals and employers across the UK. We provide employment, skills and support services that help people overcome barriers, develop their potential and move towards sustainable employment.
As an employee-owned organisation, we're committed to investing in our people, delivering high-quality services and creating positive outcomes for the communities we support.
What you'll do
As a Trainer/Mentor, you'll:
To deliver a variety of training and one to one support designed to prepare the customer for securing employment including via work placement / trial that will lead to employment
To be responsible, aware of contractual job targets in relation to the number of customers we are contracted to have on our provision and the number of job starts and sustained jobs that are expected to achieve with their customers
To train customers in specific employability and functional skills in line with the requirements of the local labour market, and specific employers. Relevant customer documentation to be completed in line with company procedures.
To carry out inductions and the basic assessment of the customers to identify their transferable skills, strengths, and experience. This will include, where appropriate, a work skills assessment for literacy and numeracy
To provide one to one support for our customers, job search sessions, exploring the local labour market and securing interviews with employers
To discuss and examine in appropriate detail, local and more general employment and training opportunities that may be available
To work with employers, training providers and other agencies to strengthen the service we provide to our customers, including booking them in to deliver a session on the course
To provide ICT focused job search skills, including using PCs, Laptops and Tablets to apply for jobs online, produce electronic CVs and attach them to online job applications, completing application forms online, using online web-based job sites including Find a Job
To provide training in self-presentation, interview skills, and telephone techniques and the provision of a quality curriculum vitae for each customer
To assist customers to produce a realistic action plan leading back to work, including considering obstacles to the successful achievement of the plan and how to overcome them
To provide information to customers on a one-to-one basis and delivering training as a group
To assist in the recruitment of customers by marketing the company provision to JCP Work Coaches, external agencies and community groups and developing good relationships with JCP in your local area
To improve life skills of customers by encouraging and valuing their contribution both collectively and establishing an atmosphere of trust and understanding.
To ensure an environment appropriate for training sessions in order that customers gain the maximum benefit
To complete paperwork as required by the company and JCP.
What you'll need
We're looking for someone who has:
Level 2 English and Maths as a minimum
PTTLS or equivalent trainer / teaching certification.
Overseas equivalent qualifications will be accepted.
Desirable –
Appropriate training qualification, PGCE, PGDE etc.
How Assessed –
Application and certificates.
Knowledge & Experience:
Experience of delivering training and/or teaching people of all ages (minimum 1 – 2 years)
Previous experience of working with individuals claiming income support and incapacity benefit and the barriers they face
Knowledge of Jobcentre Plus programmes and incentives for unemployed people
A commitment to equality / diversity, health & safety (including Safeguarding) and experience of delivering appropriate related strategies
Internal auditing to ensure all submitted claims pass the compliance check and do not exceed a 5% error rate.
How Assessed :
Application and interview.

Skills & Qualities: Essential – Good administrative skills
Ability to work on an outreach basis
Excellent interpersonal skills
Computer literate, with a knowledge of filing, record keeping and recording outcomes
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Ability to deliver training to groups and individuals
Ability to self-manage.

Desirable : Negotiation Skills
How Assessed:
Application and interview.

Personal Qualities:
Essential:

Self-starter
Self-motivated
Target orientated
Full, current driving license and access to own vehicle for business use.
How Assessed : Application and Interview Overseas equivalent qualifications will be considered.
We welcome applications from people with relevant lived experience and recognise the valuable insight this can bring to the role.
Equality and accessibility
Standguide is an Equal Opportunities Employer and a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to equality of opportunity and value the diversity of our employees, applicants and customers.
We'll consider reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Please contact recruitment_standguide_couk if you need the advert or application information in another format or require an adjustment at any stage.
All applicants will be assessed fairly against the published criteria for the role.
Pre-employment checks
Any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, confirmation of the applicant's right to work in the UK and an Enhanced DBS check.
Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from working with us. Any information disclosed will be considered fairly and individually, taking account of its relevance to the role and the circumstances involved.
For a copy of the full job description and person specification, please email recruitment_standguide_couk .