Inclusive Employment Job Coach

Inclusive Employment
- Supporting customers

Location: West Essex, with travel required across Essex

Hours:Part time, 22.5 hours a week, Tuesday
- Thursday 08:30am - 16:30pm. Flexibility working outside of the core hours is required, including evenings and weekends.

Contract:Permanent

Do you have experience of working in an employment supportive role?
Are you confident working in a target driven environment?
Do you want to be part of a great team who help people every day?
As an Inclusive Employment Job Coach, you’ll be key in ensuring our customers, who are predominately young adults with an EHCP on a supported internship program, are coached using Training in Systemic Instruction (TSI) methods into employment, volunteering and/or community outcomes dependant on the customer’s choice and their specific employment targets. You will also have the opportunity to support our supported employment customers settle in and sustain their paid employment in a range of different sectors.

You will be responsible for a cohort of customers, ensuring that they are confident to settle into their paid employment and supported internship placement.

This is a great time to join ECL as we expand our Inclusive Employment offering. Bring strong communication skills and the drive to succeed coupled with a passion to ensure our customers meet their goals.

To be considered for the role of Inclusive Employment Job Coach, you need:

• Experience of directly supporting young adults with a learning disability and/or autism
• To be confident in building and maintaining relationships
• The ability to work and succeed in a target driven environment
• Good knowledge of the supported internship model
• Exceptional and adaptable communication skills
• The ability to work as part of a team, but also on your own initiative
• A full and valid driving licence with own vehicle to travel

• £500 new starter bonus*
• 55p paid per mile tax-free
• Up to 32 days annual leave a year (inclusive of bank holidays)
• Fully paid induction and training with ongoing support
• Career development opportunities with access to paid for qualifications
• Annual salary reviews
• Annual performance-related bonus
• Enhanced DBS and renewals paid for by ECL
• Company pension - Enhanced contributory NEST scheme - we contribute up to 6%
• Healthcare support scheme via Healthshield paid for by ECL
• Employee Loyalty Scheme with long service awards
• Employee referral program - £350 for referring a friend
• Access to Blue Light Card
• Mental health first aiders in every service
• Reimbursement of professional membership related to your role

Regular travel required to meet with customers and employers.

At ECL, we offer care and support to thousands of people to live safely and independently within their own homes and local communities in South East England.

We provide high quality social care services in Essex, London Borough of Havering, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and West Sussex aimed at wellbeing, prevention and increasing independence.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from suitable candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are proud to be part of the Disability Confident scheme which helps to employ, support and promote disabled people in the workplace.

Please note that while ECL does hold a visa sponsor licence, we do not currently accept direct applications from candidates requiring visa sponsorship. Instead, we work with a designated third-party provider to support sponsorship arrangements. Therefore, applicants who do not already have the right to work in the UK and/or require visa sponsorship to continue working in the UK cannot be considered for this role through direct application.

Inclusive Employment - Supporting customers