Company Description
Job Title: First Nations Job Coach
Company: atWork Australia
Location: Kwinana, WA
Salary: Competitive Salary + KPI quarterly bonus incentive

WHO WE ARE:

atWork Australia is a leading employment services provider working with Australians living with disability, injury, health condition or those who require additional support, across the nation. We empower our clients, supporting them to build better working lives.
To do that, we work with people to identify their goals and aspirations, build skills and job-readiness, and support them through interviews and into employment. We also work with prospective employers to ensure their needs for recruiting new team members are met. In short, our approach is to support a person in the way that most helps them transform their life, in pursuit of our belief that work’s for everyone.

THIS IS AN IDENTIFIED POSITION. CANDIDATES MUST HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLES, AND PROVEN CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Job Coach team in Keepit, NSW. If you’re looking for work with purpose, that has the ability to change peoples’ lives for the better, we want to hear from you. The right person has great opportunity for career progression within the team.
The Job Coach’s role is to guide our clients towards job-readiness and enabling opportunities for employment once they are ready for work. As one of our Job Coaches, you will be at the forefront of our services, working one-on-one with clients to provide support for a sustainable career.

On a typical day as a Job Coach you might be:

• Encouraging and motivating participants through appropriate activities to find their own employment;
• Building relationships with local employers to source job opportunities for our clients;
• Placing participants into sustainable employment;
• Ensuring all activity is appropriately recorded, documented and adheres to compliance and/or contractual requirements; and
• Ensuring our clients, employers and those we work with, receive exceptional service at every stage of the process.

Qualifications

• An understanding of the issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• An ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.
• Association or experience with Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander Community organisations
• Confidently be able to manage your responsibilities, your workload and collaborate with the wider team to deliver exceptional results for our clients.
• Have a high level of computer literacy
• Be able to build and maintain internal and external relationships with employers, service providers and clients
• Proven experience working with targets and/or KPI’s
• An overall desire to be part of our broader atWork Australia family, with a true belief in our purpose: to connect people and business, so both can thrive
• Previous experience in Employment Services, Customer Service or sales will be highly regarded.
• Hold a current Drivers Licence.

Additional Information

Job Description
This is an on-site position