Employment Coach

Title: Employment Coach
Location: Northampton
Salary: 31,000
Job Type: Permanent, Full time, 37.5 hours per week.

Position Overview
We currently have an exciting opportunity for the role of Employment Coach in Northampton working for a commercial organisation with a social purpose.

Are you driven by the desire to create positive change and eager to join a forward-thinking organisation with a social mission?

Do you thrive on targets and relish the opportunity to help individuals who may have been out of work for a significant period of time, to find employment.

If the answer is yes, this could be the role for you.

As an Employment Coach, you will be supporting individuals to progress into their chosen career paths by providing advice, support and guidance and implementing smart support plans, tailored to individual needs.

Working with participants face to face, you will coach and support their journey to employment by providing employability sessions, interview skills advice, job search methods, re-building participant confidence following a period of unemployment and identifying correct interventions that will remove barriers and enable them to regain employment.

You will have monthly targets to successfully move participants into work and have a good knowledge of the local labour market, training opportunities and relevant support agencies to support this. You will get to know the local employers in your community, understanding what they are looking for in an employee and encouraging them to interview your participant.

You will maintain participant records using the company CRM system and record regular contact with your participants, keeping them motivated and focused for the duration of the programme.

Working with diagnostic screening, assessments and skills analysis will be critical to the guidance you provide, allowing participants to consider all options available to them to gain employment.

About you:
Desired Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Experience in providing one-to-one support or coaching and positively influencing other people's professional or personal development.
• Experience of working in the employment and skills sector and delivering to specified targets, quality standards and compliance measures is essential.
• Experience of using motivational and action planning techniques to manage the progression of participants into sustainable work opportunities.
• The empathy it takes to engage with all sorts of people, and the confidence to challenge them if you need to.
• The ability to handle complex cases at the same time in an environment where you will have targets to achieve.
• The need to be organised and be able to manage time effectively and ensure monthly targets are achieved.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to motivate and inspire others.
• An influencing approach, especially when it comes to bringing other people around to your way of thinking.
• The need to have a good understanding of the local and regional labour market.
• A practical understanding of the recruitment and selection processes.
• You should be comfortable to do some local travel, and using a range of digital channels including phone, video conferencing and email.
• Good administration, IT and good experience of using MS once software.

Additional Benefits:
Gym Flex and Cycle To Work
Performance Bonus Scheme
Value and Recognition Bonus Scheme
Buy and Sell Annual Leave
Length Of Service Recognition
Employee Wellbeing Service