Career Coach

Catch22; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused organization in Highgate is seeking a dedicated Career Coach to support individuals in transitioning into employment and educational opportunities. This full-time permanent role involves delivering personalized guidance, fostering relationships with stakeholders, and ensuring participants' success in achieving their goals. Ideal candidates will have strong interpersonal skills and relevant qualifications, contributing to the organization's mission of enhancing lives and promoting inclusion.

Qualifications

• Desirable: qualification in ERS (L3) and IEP membership.

Responsibilities

• Support service users in progressing into employment or training.
• Deliver personalized employability support and assistance.
• Provide sustained support to ensure participants maintain employment.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Adaptability

Rapport building

Education

5 GCSEs at grade C or above or equivalent

Qualification in IAG (L3)

Coaching qualification

Job description

• Catch22 exists to help build a society where everyone has a good place to live, good people around them, and a fulfilling purpose. We call these our '3Ps'.

Weachievethis in two ways. First we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we useour knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help.

Job Description

Where you fit in

Working within our Employability division, this is a remote and outreach-based role. You will be an experienced Career Coach working within local communities to support service users to progress into apprenticeships, employment, education and training opportunities.

Recruit, engage, and onboard participants into employability programmes within set timescales, providing high-quality Information, Advice and Guidance throughout.

Deliver personalised employability support, including mindset and confidence development, strengths-based interview preparation, job-search assistance, and creation of CVs and application materials. Match participants to opportunities by shortlisting, preparing job packs, arranging interviews, and supporting applications for jobs, apprenticeships, and work experience.

Provide sustained in-work support, maintaining regular contact to ensure participants achieve and maintain employment or apprenticeships for at least six months.

Work collaboratively and operationally, contributing to job fairs, workshops, community partnerships, and ensuring effective use of case management systems, timely communication, and compliance with all contractual and organisational requirements.

Maintain professional standards, including safeguarding, health and safety, equality and diversity, continuous self-development, and undertaking any other relevant duties..

• Comply with Safeguarding/Prevent, Health and Safety policies and procedures and ensure the implementation of Catch22’s policies and procedures.
• Carry out other such other relevant duties, as required.

What does good look like for this role?

• Developing strong relationships with referral partners, customers, training providers and employers
• Strong interpersonal skills. Approachable, adaptable and supportive to the range of stakeholders involved in this programme.
• Ability to develop strong rapport
• Service is delivered in line with contract requirements and all targets are met.
• Service is delivered safely, and risks/areas of underperformance are identified and managed appropriately.
• Hub outcomes are achieved.
• Service users have a positive experience and achieve their goals.

• 5 GCSE's, at grade C or above, or equivalent
• Desirable: qualification in IAG (L3), ERS (L3), Coaching, IEP membership

Additional Information

Hours:37 hours per week

Contract:Full-time Permanent

See the benefits of working for Catch22 here .

Unless otherwise stated, interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified, so early application is strongly advised.

At Catch22 we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day, working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them, a purpose, and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

Please note, we will conduct an online search as part of our due diligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media.