Lewisham Lates Outreach EET Officer

Hours of work: 0.5 FTE (20 hrs per week) - Predominately evening delivery

Salary:
Competitive salary (pro rata, dependent on qualifications & experience)

Location:

Lions Centre and youth/community satellite sites across Lewisham

Responsible to:
Education & Employability Manager / designated programme lead

Supervises:
Young people aged approximately 14-24; no direct staff reports

Are you passionate about taking employability support directly into youth and community settings and helping young people progress towards education, employment and training? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Millwall Community Trust (MCT) is developing an integrated targeted Education, Employment and Training (EET) pathway for young people aged approximately 14-24 across Lewisham. The model combines MCT's established Youth Employability Hub and E&E provision with specialist delivery partners, youth services, Jobcentre Plus (JCP), employers, training providers and community organisations.

We are seeking a passionate youth experienced EET Outreach Employability & Mentoring Practitioner to provide the operational bridge between youth provision and progression opportunities. The postholder will deliver regular outreach/drop-ins across youth and community venues, provide high quality Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG), mentoring and employability support, recruit and refer young people into structured interventions, and maintain active follow-up through to positive destinations.

This 0.5 FTE role will combine direct delivery, outreach, partnership working and participant tracking. The successful candidate will work flexibly across daytime and evening provision, ensuring young people can access the right support at the right stage and that MCT's targeted EET offer operates as one connected pathway rather than a series of separate services.

• Deliver planned EET outreach/drop-ins across core and wider youth/community venues.
• Build trusted relationships with young people aged 14-24, including those at risk of NEET, unemployed, economically inactive or disengaged from mainstream services.
• Use informal engagement, short workshops, 1:1 conversations and follow-up to identify EET needs, barriers and appropriate next steps.
• Manage an allocated caseload/referral pipeline, proactively following up non-attendance.
• Promote structured MCT and partner activity and actively recruit new young people

• Deliver high-quality IAG across education, employment, training and work experience
• Provide employability support incl CVs, applications, interview prep and work-readiness.
• Complete individual action plans & warm handovers to MCT Hub, JCP & specialist partners.
• Differentiate support to age e.g. early careers activity to NEET/unemployed young people.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of employers, training providers and progression routes

• Work collaboratively with youth services and specialist paid delivery partners.
• Act as day to day link between EET outreach & venue specialist targeted EET interventions
• Co-ordinate operational/partnership meetings to ensure EET cross-venue working
• Represent MCT professional developing positive relationships at youth/community venue.

• Record participant starts, attendance/engagement, distance travelled and EET outcomes
• Complete regular reviews and participant feedback to demonstrate work-readiness.
• Support achievement of programme KPIs ensuring participants are tracked accurately
• Undertake follow-up to evidence progression and sustained positive destinations.
• Contribute to quality assurance, self-evaluation and youth voice to shape future…