Employability Coach and Designated Safeguarding Lead

Based in our Central Alternative Provision in St Philips, Bristol, the main purpose of the Employability Coach role is to co-ordinate the provision of individualised support for young people and develop and deliver suitable learning, personal development and work-related learning opportunities for the students in small groups and 1:1.

The Employability Coach will work as part of a wider team that support our young people to access provision, achieve outcomes and progress onto suitable education, employment or training.

• To design and deliver targeted employability skills programmes that develop the skills and confidence of students, set within the context of employability behaviours and attitudes. (by this I mean we are moving on from Year 11 and we want to prepare them for work. We want to try and support them with all their issues and work with families to achieve outcomes.

• To be creative in engaging vulnerable young people to take part in a variety of opportunities to build their skills and confidence.

• To complete individualised learner journeys/vocational profiling assessment alongside our Careers and Progression Adviser

• To create a programme of engaging opportunities that meet a young person’s learning, social and emotional needs and that support the individual career and employment goals of the student.

• To develop relationships with local employers and set up placement opportunities for students 

• To work persistently to overcome recruitment and selection barriers that students face, by creating relationships with employers who can understand and support our students to be successful and create potential progression opportunities.

• The coach will work with the wider team to provide supervision and support of students in the workplace using a job coaching model.

• To provide intensive preparation to each young person so that they can achieve success in a work placement 

• Set up, visit and monitor work experience placements for students

• Produce and maintain records related to work placements including the completion of all health and safety administration/checks

• To have evidence of working with and engaging young people with SEMH and/or trauma and/or behavioural difficulty in their learning.  

• To have an excellent of contextual safeguarding and safeguarding 

• Work effectively with other professionals to support a young person’s wellbeing and mental health