Employment Coach, Education ​/ Teaching

Our employment coaches have two key skills – the ability to deliver 1-2-1 support to help people plan and reach their goals, and the ability to teach groups to help people gain skills to achieve their goals. Each role is 50/50 to ensure we continue to support people and deliver training that’s fit for people’s aspirations.

Every coach has a core subject specialism they can teach and are qualified to deliver through numerous levels so we can offer progression to our customers. Additionally, all deliver a wide and varied curriculum around life skills, enrichment, wellbeing and employability – all core to our curriculum.

• Engage and recruit eligible participants to employment, skills and wellbeing programmes, identifying the most appropriate starting point for each person.
• Complete robust initial and ongoing assessments, identify strengths, aspirations and barriers, and agree personalised action plans with clear, achievable goals.
• Manage a caseload throughout the participant journey, maintaining regular contact, reviewing progress and coordinating timely interventions that support attendance, achievement, progression and sustained employment.
• Provide effective one-to-one coaching and group learning in employability, confidence, wellbeing, digital skills and workplace readiness, adapting delivery to individual needs.
• Support participants to create CVs, complete applications, search and apply for vacancies, prepare for interviews and assessments, and use online job-search tools confidently.
• Use labour-market information to help participants explore realistic career pathways and progress into employment, education, accredited or non-accredited learning, Functional Skills, vocational training, apprenticeships, volunteering or work experience.
• Build productive relationships with employers and partners to create vacancies, presentations, workplace visits, work tasters, mentoring, job fairs, work trials and other progression opportunities.
• Provide flexible face-to-face, telephone, digital and outreach support, including activity in rural and disadvantaged communities and appropriate in-work support for participants and employers.
• Maintain accurate, timely and compliant participant records, evidence and monitoring information, and report on performance, outcomes, success stories, risks and areas for improvement.
• Meet agreed quality and performance targets while embedding safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion, trauma-informed practice, health and safety, data protection and quality assurance in all activity.
• Delivering an effective and motivating curriculum as directed across sites as required
• Ensuring our curriculum intent is embedded in all teaching, and sequencing is achieved through all delivery
• Supporting the creation of schemes of work, lesson plans and appropriate teaching resources for own teaching sessions
• Complete funding paperwork and other admin duties as required in line with guidelines.

Your role is all about helping people improve their employability options by overcoming multiple and complex barriers. You have the opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives. The more you put in the more you get out

• A willingness and ability to deliver a range of courses beyond your primary area of expertise with an enthusiasm to develop your skills to adapt our delivery to the needs of our learners.
• Are comfortable with, and can deliver, both 1-2-1 and group sessions in their role.
• L3 Award in Education and Training (formerly PTLLS) or Teaching qualification, and/or willingness to undergo further training.
• An understanding of the principles underpinning teaching adults, i.e., planning, delivery, assessment and evaluation of…