Employability Coach - Lancashire

Salary: £23,111.06
Post: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Location: Project SEARCH @ Lancashire Constabulary HQ, Hutton, Lancashire

As an Employability Coach at Hft you’ll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible, by supporting them to achieve goals and aspirations around paid employment. In this creative and rewarding role, you will enable people to develop and acquire relevant skills needed for the workplace, support them to gain work experience, and help them to find long term paid employment. You will provide innovative and high quality support during three on-site work placements for each person you are supporting.

You will be helping to ensure that the people we support:

  • Have the opportunity to develop relevant skills for employment
  • Gain work experience in a large business
  • Increase their independence
  • Achieve their aspirations
  • Are empowered to make decisions and choices around their future employment
  • Are kept safe
About you

You will have a ‘Can Do’ attitude, be driven and enthusiastic about helping people with learning disabilities to meet their aspirations. You will have the ability to look for creative solutions to meet people's support needs in a way that respects their individuality. You will work be able to work well using your own initiative and in partnership with colleagues from partner organisations, and with Hft’s Work Options Manager. The ultimate purpose of the Employability Coach and Project SEARCH, is to enable young people with a learning disability to secure a real job either with the the host employer or externally with another employer. The post holder’s performance in the role is assessed using this purpose.

As an Employability Coach at Project SEARCH, you will usually work Mon-Fri during office hours, however you will need to be open to flexible working which may involve some occasional evening and weekend work.

 

What we offer

We are one of the largest learning disability charities in the UK, supporting over 2,500 people through our friendly, supportive, creative and diverse teams. We offer a range of benefits and career development opportunities. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training and support along the way. With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in our teams to ensure they have the specialist skills they need.

To apply

To view the job description and apply, please visit https://careers.hft.org.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=4964

For more information on the role,
please contact Rachel Osborne or Bryony Dolby
Email:  rachel.osborne@hft.org.uk or bryony.dolby@hft.org.uk
Telephone: 07901103295 or 07407643872

Closing date: 8th July 2022