Employability Coach

at  Barnardos

Barnardo’s and Sky have joined together to pilot a project which aims to support and transform the lives of young people who are not in education, employment, or training. The aim of the programme is to equip young people with lived experience of care aged 16-25 with the skills, confidence, and ambition to pursue their goals of finding employment, apprenticeships or further education and training. Sky is offering paid work experience opportunities in their Osterley office in Hounslow, London. Young people will also be supported to explore the range of jobs and apprenticeships on offer within Sky.
The Employability Coach provides a pivotal role in the development of the Barnardo’s programme in Hounslow and surrounding boroughs. This role focuses on supporting young people through a 12-week motivational programme and includes improving employability skills, confidence, team work and self-esteem. Being able to work independently is an important aspect of the role, as the team is small.
You will work assertively and creatively to engage with young people. The Employability Coach will lead and develop the work in this area and will be responsible for providing quality Information, Advice and Guidance. You will be responsible for contributing to, devising and developing schemes of work, session plans and resources to meet requirements to equip young people with the personal social and development skills, motivation, confidence and employability skills to progress into and sustain employment and/or further education/training. You will conduct 1:1 mentoring sessions and use outcome measurement tools to track changes.
The post holder will be responsible for liaising with other Barnardo’s services and agencies to access additional services for service users where required. You will also be required to liaise and work with local agencies to promote the project, generate referrals and recruit 10 young people onto each cohort.
This post will involve travel around the West London area, including Hounslow, Ealing and surrounding boroughs. There will also be the need to travel to our site in Crystal Palace for monthly meetings.

Key Experience / Qualifications Required:

• 2 years plus experience of working with young people not in education, employment and training, aged 16-25.
• Experience or 1:1 work with young people.
• Delivery of employability and personal and social development in group sessions.
• Excellent local knowledge of the West London area (Hounslow) and organisations within it.
• Experience working with young people facing barriers to employment.
• PTTLS (desirable)

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo’s values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo’s as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay progression steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo’s pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo’s believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo’s. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo’s stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo’s Learning and Development offer
• T&C’s apply based on contract

About Barnardo’s
At Barnardo’s we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.

Please refer the Job description for details