Job Coach (Project Search)

Job Purpose

The Project Search Job Coach will work with participants aged 16 – 25 with special education needs and disabilities to identify both job and career advancement opportunities.

You will coach participants with a view to build their confidence and raise aspirations.

Assist participants in identifying and enhancing their job skills, providing advice and guidance that increases employability.

You will lead, contribute, co-design and support coordination with wider Foundation projects, activities and events.

Key Responsibilities

• Devise, plan and implement job coaching strategies.
• Notice participant’s strengths and instruct them on how to make the best out of their strengths
• Discover participant’s motivation and help develop their skills
• Present and teach job-searching skills and techniques
• Support project participants with SEND to develop their employability skills by learning on-the-job skills through work rotations across different departments in our host business (North Middlesex Hospital).
• Support students throughout work rotations, increasing employers understanding of reasonable adjustments in the workplace for SEND individuals.
• Develop positive relationships with project participants through 1-2-1 and group mentoring.
• Work in collaboration with host business staff, and contractor staff (CONEL) to support the project participants to access their work placements.
• Support participants to access and apply for employment opportunities as they progress through the project through CV building, interview preparation and opportunity finding.
• Work collaboratively with project partners to ensure positive outcomes for project participants to progress into employment after graduating from Project SEARCH.
• Track progress of project participants using written and visual reporting.
• Attend regular project steering group meetings to provide updates on progress of students.
• Ensure that all data and reporting is collected across the project to demonstrate the impact of delivery.
• Champion and act in line with the Foundation’s commitment to safeguarding and the welfare of children and adults.
• Perform all responsibilities in line with legislative guidance and Club/Foundation policy on safeguarding, safer-working and ED&I practices.

Personal Attributes

• Thinks ahead, generates innovative ideas
• Values & respects others, builds relationships, collaborates
• Good at planning and organising own work and others.
• Gets things done, delivers to highest of standards, takes responsibility
• Team worker whilst highly capable of working on own

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Examples of successfully working on supported internships/pre-internship programmes.
• Demonstrable experience of working with a range of monitoring and evaluation systems.
• Ability to work flexibly across locations.

Desirable

• Experience of providing job coaching to adults and young people with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities).
• Understanding of the Project SEARCH model.

How to Apply

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