Job title and organisation: Assistant Job Coach - Lighthouse Futures Trust
Salary: £21,616-£23,151 pa (pro rata)
Hours: 37.5
Contract: Term Time Only - 39 weeks
Location: Headingley/ Employer Site
Closing Date and Time: Friday 5 September
Lighthouse Futures Trust is an SPI (Specialist Post-16 Institution) and a registered charity that was established in 2018. Our focus is on supporting young adults, aged 16- 25, to gain the social and employability skills they need to find and sustain paid employment.
Our principleprogrammes are:
Pre-internship: this lasts for 1 to 2 years and is primarily based on our college site but includes regular trips and business visits.
Supported internship: this lasts for 10 months and includes 3 to 4 days a week on site with a major local employer
Branching Out: this is a practical programme that lasts for 10 months which focuses on gardening/landscaping and other hands on roles.
Working for Lighthouse Futures Trust is often fast paced but is always incredibly rewarding, helping create a positive future for young adults.
ROLE PURPOSE
The role of Assistant Job Coach involves supporting the Job Coach to develop positive relationships with students, ensuring the programme helps them to foster self-confidence, alongside social and employability skills, and is tailored to meet individual needs ensuring students make successful steps towards adulthood and greater independence.
- Help to ensure high-quality programme delivery, building strong relationships with students, parents/carers, employers and external agencies
- Support the Job Coach to deliver an exciting and highly innovative curriculum centred around employability and skills development
- With support from the Job Coach, work successfully with each intern and help them build confidence in their daily interactions, including facilitating any specific interventions.
- Develop positive relationships with all interns and with parents/ carers.
- Help interns develop wider independence skills to ensure they can lead fulfilled lives through areas such as independent travel, knowledge of banking and finance, attending social events, joining social groups, focusing on personal health and well-being and developing self-advocacy.
- Support the Job Coach to set, monitor, review and record progress on a regular basis for each intern against personal, EHCP and work-based targets on LFT based systems.
- With guidance from the Specialist tutors, provide support in English and Maths sessions and highlight any progression concerns to the tutor in a timely manner.
- Liaise with external agencies and partners as appropriate and in a professional manner.
Please contact Sarah Williams for a copy of the job description and application form: sarahw@lighthousefuturestrust.org.uk
The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.
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