Employment Coach

Employment Coach

We have an exciting new opportunity to join an excellent company who thrive at helping get people back into work. Our client is seeking an Employment coach on a full time, 11 month FTC, offering a salary of up to £31,000 pro rata, plus other company benefits.

What will you be doing?

As an Employment Coach, you will be supporting individuals to progress into their chosen career paths by providing advice, support, and guidance, using assessments and implementing tailored support plans, which would need to be smart and tailored to individual needs. You will be working with participants face to face, you will coach and support their journey to employment by providing employability sessions, interview skills advice, job search method, re-building participant confidence following a period of unemployment and identifying correct interventions that will remove barriers and enable them to regain employment as monthly targets will be a part of your role for you to achieve.

You will also be familiar with the local area labour market; training opportunities and relevant support agencies is essential for success in the role. You will get to know the local employers in your community, understanding what they are looking for in an employee and encouraging them to interview your participant.

What skills will you have?

• You will have strong experience in providing one-to-one support or coaching and positively influencing other people's professional or personal development.
• You will have experience in working in the employment and skills sector and delivering to specified targets, quality standards and compliance measures.
• You will be experienced in using motivational and action planning techniques to manage the progression of participants into sustainable work opportunities.
• You will have empathy to engage with all sorts of people, and the confidence to challenge them if you need to and can handle complex cases at the same time in an environment where you will have targets to achieve.
• You will need to be organised and be able to manage time effectively and ensure monthly targets are achieved, and you will have excellent communication skills, including the ability to motivate and inspire others.
• You will have a practical understanding of the recruitment and selection processes.
• You should be comfortable to do some local travel, and using a range of digital channels including phone, video conferencing and email.
• You will have excellent administration, IT and good experience of using MS office software.

How to Apply?

Please click apply if this sounds like the perfect next step in your career, i look forward to hearing from you soon.