Job Details:
Progression Coach

Job Description

Job description

JOIN THE GROUNDWORK TEAM

We’re passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances. We specialise in the following services and are committed to creating added social value through our delivery:

• Community engagement
• Landscape design & build
• Training & coaching for employment
• Early intervention to support health & wellbeing
• Safe & sustainable business support

As a Disability Confident employer we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role. As a Gold Award Employer Recognition Scheme holder with the Armed Forces Covenant we also offer a guaranteed interview to veterans who meet the essential criteria for the role.

At Groundwork we ensure that we provide a safe environment for adults, children and young people to take part in any activity or service that we organise. We are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk.

Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all the people we appoint are suitable to work with our children, young people and adults.

If you want to work in a values driven team that makes a real difference to individuals and communities in Greater Manchester, read on.

OVERVIEW OF THE POST

Turning Point provides support to people who are affected by drugs and alcohol through free confidential advice, information, support and a variety of treatment options. This service covers Oldham and Rochdale. Groundwork works in partnership with Turning Point to support service users with positive progression into employment, education, training and volunteering activities.

Based in Rochdale, this role will work alongside the Turning Point staff team, including Groundwork IPS staff, to make a real difference to service users lives by developing personal, flexible and realistic support packages that individuals need to turn their life around. Working with a caseload of service users, through a mixture of 121 and group activities, the role will concentrate on promoting independence, regaining and building on social skills, promoting health and well-being, and enabling individuals to achieve positive outcomes through securing voluntary opportunities, educational progression, and paid employment.

ROLE & MAIN PURPOSES OF THE POST

Delivery

• Delivering all aspects of Employment and Wellbeing programmes including recruitment, one to one and group coaching and delivering short training courses, workshop and information sessions focused on employability and wellbeing skills
• Uses Groundwork GM and external funder’s databases and monitoring mechanisms

Business & Service Development

• To build partnerships, including with employers, to support effective service delivery and identify a sustained pipeline of opportunities, including employment opportunities
• Identify opportunities
• Support development of employment and wellbeing services
• Use internal and external data relating to employment and wellbeing services, and shares learning within team to inform service development & practise

Financial & Resource Management

• Responsible for managing project budgets and planning for effective use of resources for delivery
• Supports development and delivery of financial sustainability plans for wellbeing and skills related projects and thematic programmes

People Management & Development

• Line management of any project support staff and responsibility for staff performance
• Embeds culture and values through own area of responsibility
• Proactively shares specialist skills and knowledge with others

Internal Management

• Embeds policy and procedure within directly managed projects and programmes
• Supports delivery of elements of business improvement priority plans within specialist area
• Identifies opportunities for improvement within directly managed activities and projects and the wider Trust
• Remains on top of market and emerging trends / latest insights relating to employment and wellbeing skills

Other

• Perform all other duties as assigned

To apply for this role, please visit https://www.groundwork.org.uk/jobs/progression-coach/

Please send the forms to [email protected] quoting Progression Coach in the subject line

Pension, cycle to work scheme, flexi time, sick pay, long service additional holidays