Job Introduction
We are on the look out for a Community Job Coach to join our Employment Inclusion Team!
As a Community Job Coach, you will have the chance to support adults with a learning disability or other needs to maintain, develop and retain jobs in the community or as part of supported internship schemes. You will also provide follow-on job coaching for the students from those programmes as they progress into paid employment.
Our team works in partnership with other stakeholders to deliver employability programmes such as Project Search and Sure Programme, which support people into work through internships.
This is a part-time opportunity where you will work out of our Carrswood Day Service, where there is flexibility to work from home. The service runs Monday to Friday, but you would be expected to work flexibly around the hours of our clients, so occasional evening or weekend work might be required.
Main Responsibility
As a Job Coach, your main responsibilities will be but not be limited to:
- Identify any barriers that clients are encountering and work to find sustainable solutions
- Support clients to maintain their employment rights, including during any disciplinary or grievance procedures, and, if appropriate, employment tribunals
- Support clients on career pathways – our clients have the same right to develop and progress as any other member of staff
- Resource clients and employers with the skills to be independent, with the aim of job coaching reducing over time
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of two years working with adults with a learning disability and/or Autism. You will be able to recognise and act on the legal responsibilities concerning the safety and welfare of the clients whilst able to exhibit an overall positive and professional attitude.
You will be aware and understand the need to protect the privacy of individuals and confidentiality of information. We are looking for someone who is confident with lone working, is self-motivated and accountable for managing their time.
While not essential, it would be desirable to have training in systematic instruction and the ability to carry out workplace analysis.
Travel is essential for this role, so ability to travel within the Bath and North East Somerset area either by a vehicle or public transport is required. The majority of clients will be based in places that are accessible via public transport.
Package Description
As a Community Job Coach, you’ll be part of our valued team in Bath and North East Somerset.
You will feel valued as a Community Job Coach within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £21,630 (which will be pro-rated to the hours worked) with access to our group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
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.
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