Employment Coach - HMP Winchester
The Forward Trust
- Winchester
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Accurately identify the needs of the learners/job seekers, to understand their challenges, career ambitions, strengths & development areas, future job roles and/or training opportunities.
- Deliver high quality end-to-end information, advice and guidance to customers / learners on our employability programmes.
- Complete goal focused action plans / ILRs/PLPs for all referred learners/clients and provide support and motivation for clients to implement their action plans.
- Coach the learners on a one to one and group basis based on the Forward Trust ES Methodology and Theory of Change
- Engage and maintain regular contact and in work support with learners/job seekers at agreed intervals to ensure they sustain their work experience, job or apprenticeship (as indicated by the contracts)
- Ensure learners demonstrate and sustain progression into apprenticeships and employment.
- Experience of providing high quality coaching support that ensures learners access employment and apprenticeships- aligned to the Ofsted EIF and Matrix Standard.
- Ability to build a prisoner’s self-confidence, self-esteem, motivation, behaviours, skills and knowledge to help them achieve in the world of work and lasting employment/career development.
- Identifying skills and qualities in a learner to match appropriately with vacancies.
- Progressing learners and job seekers into apprenticeships and employment and sustaining them in these
- Experience of providing high quality CV, job search, interview support to learners/job seekers (prisoners, ex-offenders, at risk offending, NEET, unemployed)
- Willingness to undertake a Level 4 IAG qualification as part of their learning and development.
- Training opportunities and career development
- Flexible Working
- Simply Health Cashback Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Crisis Loan Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
- 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
- Access to Blue Light Card
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
- Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
- Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
- Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria
- Experience in providing careers advice/IAG services on a one to one and group work setting.
- Experience of working in prisons and working with HMPS and other external providers e.g., JCP.
- Experience of working to targets and quality standards in the skills, education, or employability sector.
- Able to build strong relationships with other departments in the division and make full use of the support offered by the Learning Skills Manager.
- Motivating, inspiring, and enthusing clients/learners to progress in life.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to motivate and inspire others.
- Good working knowledge of the Matrix Standard, Ofsted EIF.
- A tenacious approach and an understanding of how employers recruit and select based on talent.
- Good administration, IT and organisational skills with good experience of using MS office software and management information systems e.g., NOMIS. Virtual Campus, Excel.
- Accurately identify the needs of the individual to understand their challenges, career ambitions, strengths & development areas, future job roles and/or training opportunities.
- Promote and develop the mind-set, emotional intelligence qualities, self-confidence and esteem so that individuals succeed in the world of work.
- Complete goal focused action plans Digital Personal Learning Plans and provide support and motivation for clients to implement their action plans.
- Prepare CVs, disclosure letter and job/apprenticeship application forms with learners.
- Short-list, pre-select and match/submit to vacancies/work experience opportunities.
- Prepare learners/job seekers to a high standard for interview with employers.
- Support the delivery of any Employment Hub events, job fairs, workshops and seminars that get learners ready for the world of work.
- Ensure contractual compliance is always maintained to the highest standard
- Comply with Safeguarding/Prevent agenda, Health and Safety and other policies and procedures.
- Work with colleagues to achieve effective performance management, number of DPLP’s, reviews and pre-release reviews completed weekly, weekly performance reporting and monthly reviews.
- Meet required KPI’s to corresponding deadlines, as set out by Operations Manager/Learning and Skills Manager.