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Employment Coach - Route to Recruit Programme

West of Reading area

Ways into Work is an employee-owned social enterprise with a clear mission: Changing Lives One Job at a Time. 

We do this by supporting people with disabilities or other barriers to gain and maintain paid employment. With over 70% of the people we support in work, and 90% retained in work we are really proud of the impact we are making. Working with us can be challenging, but our employees rate us as a great place to work, consistently 4 out of 5 stars or better; and the reward of changing someone’s life is second to none! 

Make a real difference to someone’s life - are you committed to Improving diversity and inclusion locally?

Starting salary £23,152.50 per annum full time (pro-rata for part time),rising to £23,593.50 on successful probation

Permanent Full time or part-time and term time + 3 weeks a definite option

This is an exciting opportunity for a person to join our passionate team as an Employment Coach supporting young people with disabilities to build their skills and gain paid employment. You will be working on our Route to Recruit programme which delivers supported internships across Berkshire. Supported internships enable young people to ‘learn on the job’ rather than in the traditional setting of the classroom. Find out more here .

Key responsibilities are:

• Coaching young people in their supported internship place of work on a one-to-one basis to layer up the skills they need in that workplace and to ultimately secure paid work
• Liaising with the workplace employer, education providers (schools and colleges) and programme manager regarding student progress and next steps in their skills development
• Providing mentoring and coaching where needed to line managers and work colleagues, to empower employers to become more independent in meeting the needs of that young person
• Provide travel training
  

Profile

The successful candidate will need to have the following skills and experience:

• Excellent communication skills, energy and enthusiasm
• Ability to use varied IT systems and to record interactions accurately and concisely on our Salesforce CRM system
• Good organisational skills with the ability to balance the needs of clients, employers and us!
• A resilient and pragmatic approach to dealing with people and occasionally challenging situations
• A knowledge of disability or HR procedures would be beneficial but not essential as training will be given on a range of disabilities eg. Autism, Learning Disabilities etc. 
• Full UK driving licence with daily access to a car is essential and a successful enhanced DBS would be required (paid for by us)
• Easy access via public transport or by walking to base in Reading London road 
• Most importantly a sense of humour, someone who share our values and wants to make a real difference to someone’s life

Job Offer

This is a Permanent position working in a team that changes lives, one job at a time.

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays (pro-rata for part time) + a unique opportunity to buy or sell up to 1 week.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working
• Long term service awards – extra holiday and vouchers
• Regular training days, socials and mentoring from team members

To apply submit your CV to info@waysintowork.com and / or to discuss any reasonable adjustments, just get in touch with us by email or by calling us on 0300 561 0010.