About the Role
Fixed Term till March 2025
If you’re looking for a job that makes a clear and positive difference to people’s lives, then this role may be an ideal for you. Make a difference in people's lives by supporting unemployed people on and through their individual pathway to find and sustain employment/learning.
The Community Employment Coach will work in communities to build trusting relationships with people who might have additional needs, to deliver a holistic and personalised support service through the resources of the network of organisations within the Skills House partnership.
Work within the college, DWP and local community settings to engage with people who are out of work, to support them to get onto relevant courses within college or into work.
Please apply for this role as soon as possible as we are interviewing suitable candidates as and when we receive applications, therefore the role may close before the advertised closing date.
What You Will Do
- Engage and build relationships with people that have been referred to us on their employment/learning journey
- Conduct community outreach and engagement work / activity to engage with people not in employment or learning
- Promote and work with multi-agency teams to ensure the effective delivery of employability, training and specialist support to participants.
- Conduct in-depth initial diagnostic assessments with all participants to identify and determine individual employability, training and specialist support needs and barriers.
- Design, manage and deliver a range of employability/training modules or interventions to maximise participant engagement, retention and progression.
- Accountable for performance and management of your caseload
- You will use sound judgement to help people through some difficult, challenging times in their lives,
- Your tailored coaching/approach can make a huge difference to people's ability to find, stay in, and progress in a job or learning
About You
- Previous experience of working with people who have additional support needs/SEN to support and prepare them for employment/learning
- People-focused and able to deliver exceptional service with empathy and compassion to diverse range of people
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal as you may work with individuals where English may not be their first language
- Knowledge of local employment/learning opportunities and the job market
- Able to work within a team and to be able to use your own initiative to contact and develop positive working relationships within the community
- It would be desirable if you are able to communicate in another foreign language
Benefits
There are plenty of benefits available to our staff members, here are just a few:
- Annual leave entitlement - If you work full time, you'll get at least 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and up to 5 discretionary closure days at Christmas (pro rata for part time staff).
- Support Staff 27 days (increasing to 32 days after 5 years service)
- Academic 37 days
- Senior Management 37 days
- Generous Pension schemes
- Teachers’ Pension Scheme
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Memberships and discounts - employees can sign up to various membership cards and discount schemes such as TOTUM card (formerly NUS card).
- Travel and commuting - discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
- Learning and development opportunities - including staff development days
- Employee wellbeing initiatives
- Flexible and hybrid working opportunities - this will vary depending on role requirements
About Us
Keighley College has excellent modern facilities and provides a professional and friendly environment. We pride ourselves on working closely with employers, the local community and other stakeholders to provide curriculum and support that meets the needs of our students. Our core purpose is to improve the life chances of our learners. We are passionate about helping our students to achieve their goals. We have state-of-the-art facilities in a central location, close to public transport links and great industry connections.
Choosing to work for Keighley College means that you will be part of an enterprising, inclusive, inspiring, collaborative, empowering, and dynamic environment. We hope that we will be part of the next step in your career and look forward to welcoming you to Keighley College.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.
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