Job Coach WCC624692

Salary range: £34,359 - £37,505 pro rata (actual salary £20,615 - £22,503 per annum). Salary negotiable depending upon experience.

Work location: 215-219 Lisson Grove, London, NW8 8LW
Hours per week: 21.60
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Basic DBS Check

About Us

As the educational arm of Westminster City Council, Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) is a world of extraordinary stories. From Childcare & Early Years Education to ESOL, and from Accounting and Digital to the Creative Arts and more, WAES’s courses offer unparalleled opportunities to grow, develop and acquire new skills.

People like Carol work to help everyone in our diverse communities to achieve their potential and transform their lives. Carol left a music industry career back in the 80s to volunteer in a local nursery. It changed her life. Now she’s managing a team to help create life-changing opportunities for children and families across Westminster and beyond. She loves working in, and for the benefit of, her local community. From volunteering to getting a job in a nursery, to studying and becoming a Childcare Development lecturer, to joining Westminster City Council back in 1989, Carol has always seized every chance to keep learning and progressing. She puts her heart into enabling people’s development. That’s why Carol and Westminster are so well suited. We’re all about nurturing people too.

Carol’s immensely proud of her team, many of whom joined as learners. They have qualified and progressed, achieving an Outstanding Ofsted grading together. She’s also proud that WAES can give opportunities to local people with potential. With Westminster, she’s in exactly the right place to keep doing that.

To find out more about our work visit waes.ac.uk.

About the Role

As a Part Time Job Coach, you can make your own powerful contribution to people across Westminster. Joining our newly established Sector-Based Work Academy Programmes team, you’ll play a vital role in supporting learners to overcome barriers and develop the skills, confidence and digital capabilities they need to access employment and learning opportunities.

Your day-to-day will be varied and dynamic, including everything from engaging with curriculum teams and DWP partners, to helping learners create profiles online and finetune their CVs. Putting learners at the heart of everything you do, you’ll carry out employment and interview preparation to ensure they’re job ready and making progress towards stable employment.

Responsibilities

• Support learners to overcome barriers and develop skills, confidence, and digital capabilities
• Engage with curriculum teams and DWP partners
• Help learners create online profiles and refine their CVs
• Deliver employment and interview preparation to ensure learners are job ready
• Conduct workshops, group sessions, or training activities
• Inspire, motivate, and guide learners in achieving their employment goals

Requirements

• Experience supporting learners, customers, or service users to achieve positive outcomes
• Experience working with individuals who may require additional support to access employment or learning
• Ability to deliver workshops, group sessions, or training activities
• Excellent communication, organisation, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to inspire, motivate, and guide learners
• True team player with enthusiasm and ideas to influence the success of a new employability programme

Benefits

At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging, and is empowered to be their best.

Our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working. The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job.