Exciting Opportunity: Job Coach Learning Support

Little Gate Job Description

Job title:

Job Coach Learning Support

The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemptions) Order 1975 applies to this post. Disclosure and Barring Clearance is required prior to employment to this post.

Main purpose of job:

To deliver high-quality, personalised support that bridges classroom learning and real workplaces from the college and the apprenticeship provision, enabling students to develop the skills, confidence and knowledge to move towards sustained, paid employment. This includes in work coaching (using Training in Systematic Instruction – TSI), travel training, employer engagement and job development (e.g. job carving), and effective collaboration with education staff to achieve EHCP and programme outcomes.

Position reports to:

Programme Manager / Head of College

Staff who will report to this job title:

N/A

Location:

Your usual places of work will be at the Little Gate College in Bexhill, the Little Gate Supported Employment Office in Battle and at the workplaces of the trainees whom we support. However, your job duties include a requirement that you will travel away from these locations as may be required by the Charity for the proper performance of your duties. Other locations may include but are not limited to other offices or branches of the Charity and any agreed remote working location (which could include your home).

Our services cover a wide geographical area across East Sussex; Hastings, Bexhill, Eastbourne and Rother and the role involves regular travel between sites and placements.

Salary:

£12.50 per hour

Your usual hours of work will be flexible between 24 and 40 hours per week, days and hours of work may be variable to suit the business needs of the Charity and the needs of those you support. Work may be on any day of the week and can include early morning starts and evenings by mutual agreement with your line lead.

In certain circumstances, it may be necessary to adjust or exceed your normal working hours in order to meet the requirements of your job.

Probationary period:

6 months

Holiday Entitlement:

5.6 weeks per annum (pro rata) inclusive of bank and public holidays

Contract type:

Permanent

Safeguarding requirements:

All employees and volunteers, regardless of their posts, share in the responsibility for protecting our work trainees, young rangers and students, keeping them safe from harm whilst they are attending Little Gate and for reporting concerns about any person’s welfare and safety.

DBS requirements;

Enhanced with Barred List check

Main tasks of job:

Work Coaching & Employer Engagement

Provide in work support to students in their placements; plan, instruct and systematically fade support using TSI.

Set up, monitor and review work placements with clear goals and success measures.

Build and maintain relationships with employers; identify, design or carve roles that fit students’ strengths and employer needs.

Support students to apply for placements and jobs (CVs, applications, interviews, reasonable adjustments).

Conduct and/or contribute to initial health & safety checks and risk assessments prior to placements, reviewing as needed.

Gather regular employer feedback and address barriers promptly to sustain progress.

Education & Learning Integration

Work alongside education staff to embed classroom learning in the workplace and bring workplace learning back into education days.

Contribute to student Action Plans with SMART goals linked to EHCP outcomes; review and update regularly.

Identify and coach employability skills (communication, timekeeping, teamwork, task completion, problem solving, H&S awareness.

Deliver travel training (route planning, ticketing, safety, contingency plans) to increase independence.

Information, Advice & Guidance (IAG)

Provide information, advice and guidance to students who ...

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