Employability Coach - Coventry

St Basils; Coventry; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

An organization in Coventry seeks an Employability Coach for a full-time role to support young people in achieving their employment and education goals. The position involves delivering accredited group activities, mentoring, and fostering strong relationships with participants, focusing on their individual needs. Applicants should have relevant teaching qualifications and experience guiding young people through employability challenges. This role is vital to empower young individuals towards positive outcomes and enhance their employability skills.

Qualifications

• Experience working with young people in employability, education, and training.
• Delivering group employability programmes.
• Ability to engage learners and challenge attitudes.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver group activities focused on employability skills.
• Assess learners' work and provide progress reports.
• Build positive relationships with young people.

Skills

Communication Skills

Coaching

Mentoring

Relationship Building

Lesson Planning

Education

Maths & English GCSE Grade C or Above

Level 3 Award in Education and Training

Tools

ICT Packages

Job description

CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 5th August 2025

Job Title: Employability Coach - FTC

Reports to: Employability Manager

Salary: Scale 6, Points 26 - 28, £26,229 - £27,982

Hours of work: Fulltime (37.5 hours per week)

*Fixed Term Contract until 31.03.2026*

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure timely communication of course dates to specified projects in order to assist them with the recruitment of young people.
• Plan and deliver designated accredited group activities focused on employability skills and support young people to attain accreditation as an embedded part of the programme.
• Effectively build positive relationships with young people on a group and on a 1-1 basis.
• Utilise coaching and mentoring skills to constructively challenge attitudes and behaviors of young people.
• Utilise lesson planning and learning schedules to achieve the skills delivery outcomes relating to the contractual requirements of the service.
• Use creative ways to engage learners and inspire them to identify learning and job goals that are relevant to the local labour market
• Utilise various mediums such as sports, arts, digital technology and facilitate the learning of employability and constructive citizenship skills
• To Ensure that your delivery complies with internal standards and processes outlined in the toolkit and meets St Basils minimum contractual obligations
• Assess learners work in compliance with the accreditors standards.
• Provide post programme reports on young people progress and achievements as a result of attending the course
• Conduct 1-1 and group inductions to support young people identified by project staff to access the programme
• Carry out initial assessments to evaluate learners’ attainment
• Work within specified KPI to ensure learners can access employment, education and training opportunities to enable them to successfully move on from the programme into positive destinations.
• Contribute to the review of St Basils Learning programmes for young people
• Facilitate 1-1 sessions throughout programme to support delivery of high quality information, advice and guidance and pastoral support in accordance with Matrix standards
• Be a key player in communicating and fostering positive relationships with allocated project staff to ensure a holistic approach when delivering the programme
• Deliver My Strengths Training
• Provide success stories to other departments within St Basils and other external partnerships

• QUALIFICATIONS

Essential:

• Maths & English GCSE Grade C or Above
• The Level 3 Award in Education and Training or other relevant teaching qualifications

Desirable:

• NVQ Level 3 in Advice and Guidance, Careers Advice or other relevant/equivalent qualifications

ROLE EXPERIENCE:

Essential:

• Experience of working with young people in any of the following settings: employability, education and training, welfare to work, youth work, probation/ criminal justice community/outreach or support work
• Experience delivering/teaching group employability programmes
• Ability to deliver a range of different activities
• Proven experience of working with hard to reach learners
• Experience of delivering advice and guidance, together with employment, education and training knowledge to young people
• Experience of developing and working in partnership with internal departments and external agencies, leading to positive outcomes for service users
• Experience of utilising ICT packages including word, email internet explorer, digital media and equipment such as projectors, digital cameras

Desirable:

• Experience of delivering basic skills assessments Numeracy, Literacy and ICT

KNOWLEDGE:

Essential:

• Strong understanding of the challenges young people face to education, employment and training
• A sound knowledge of partner agencies that support young people in the local area
• Broad knowledge of welfare system
• Have an understanding of the issues and needs of St Basils’ young people and the ability to engage them in a range of activities

Desirable:

• Knowledge of Housing Policy and Youth Homelessness
• Knowledge and ability to advise young people on benefits, available resources and how to access them.