Job Introduction
Are you passionate about empowering adults with learning disabilities and/or autism, helping them develop and retain jobs within the community? Do you believe that everyone deserves equal opportunities in the workforce? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Bank Community Job Coach.
About Us:
We are a dedicated service that supports individuals with diverse needs, we help service users to maintain, develop, and retain meaningful employment. Our mission is to create inclusive communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive professionally and personally. We work in close collaboration with stakeholders to deliver effective employability programs, providing follow-on job coaching to individuals transitioning into paid employment.
We also offer opportunties for home working in this role!
Main Responsibility
As a Bank Community Job Coach, you will play a pivotal role in supporting our clients on their journey to sustainable employment. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Building strong and supportive relationships with clients, employers, and other relevant services.
- Ensuring that equal opportunities are identified and effectively addressed in all aspects of our work.
- Managing an active caseload of clients, tailoring support according to their individual needs and circumstances.
- Maintaining accurate and up-to-date records, enabling us to access funding and ensure the sustainability of our services.
- Identifying barriers that clients may encounter and proactively finding sustainable solutions.
- Conducting specific job and task analysis to match clients with suitable employment opportunities.
- Providing ongoing support to clients in understanding and asserting their employment rights, including during disciplinary or grievance procedures and employment tribunals when necessary.
- Equipping clients and employers with the necessary skills to foster independence, with the ultimate aim of gradually reducing the need for job coaching.
- Supporting clients in exploring and pursuing career pathways, recognizing their right to personal and professional development.
The Ideal Candidate
To be successful in this role, you should possess the following qualifications and attributes:
- Experience or qualification in supporting individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism or other diverse needs in a work-related context.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- A proactive and empathetic approach, with the ability to identify and address individual barriers to employment effectively.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail to maintain accurate records and ensure compliance with funding requirements.
- Knowledge of employment rights and procedures.
- Flexibility to work across various areas of our organization
Package Description
If you are ready to make a positive impact on the lives of individuals with diverse needs and contribute to building an inclusive community, we encourage you to apply for the role of Bank Community Job Coach.
As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:
- HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Opportunities for home working!
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
- Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
- Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
- Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
