Employment and Skills Coach - Green Skills

Employment & Skills Coach - Green Skills

We have a fantastic opportunity for a forward-thinking?Employment and Skills Coach to join our team in?Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. You will be part of a new and exciting project that will focus on supporting customers into Green Skills employment opportunities.

This is a full time, fixed term role for 2 years, with a mix of working from home, office and out in the community.

The starting salary is £30,000 to £35,000 depending on your experience.

The Role:

You will be working on a new Green Skills Project that is funded by the HACT Green Skills Partnership. The aim of the project is to support customers into green employment opportunities in the BCP area. ?

This is an incredibly rewarding role in which you'll coach customers to achieve their work aspiration, either gaining qualifications or returning to, or finding better work in green sector's.

It's a real opportunity to help customers to maintain their tenancies, maximise their opportunities and improve their quality of life as well as support the development of our employment and skills service.?

You'll be:

• Providing green skills focused information, advice, and guidance services to a caseload of identified or referred customers, supporting them to access employability provision, training, work-placements, sustainable work, and better work opportunities?
• Developing a strong network of support agencies and providers
• Implementing a blended approach of advice and guidance by utilising a combination of digital, phone and direct delivery
• Developing personalised needs-led action plans in partnership with customers that outlines personal needs and goals, enabling them to develop the skills they need to seek, secure and sustain employment?
• Effectively utilising internal and external commissioning and partnership opportunities

What we're looking for:?

• You should have a passion for green skills and be excited to support customers to improve their knowledge and?understanding about the vast employment?opportunities and progression that?the green skills sector can offer?
• You should have demonstrable experience from a similar role with good knowledge of the local labour market and green skills.
• The skills and passion to work with customers in a solution focused way, creating and supporting the delivery of action plans that create positive and sustainable change??
• Effective collaboration, the ability to quickly build positive relationships with customers as well as the job centre and other local employment support networks?
• An enjoyment of understanding customer needs and hopes for the future, helping to extend their thinking about what they can do to sustain their tenancy through employment while achieving their work goals?
• A flexible and positive attitude with the ability to self-manage, prioritising and managing multiple caseloads?
• Experience in mentoring and coaching people to realise and achieve their potential?

A full UK driving licence and access to your own transport is essential as some travel throughout the region may be required.

A basic DBS check will also be undertaken for the successful candidate.?

What you can expect from us:?

As a member of the Communities?Team you will be part of a friendly, motivated and supportive working environment.?

We invest in our people, and you will be able to develop your skills and be part of something that makes a real difference to people's lives. This role can give you the opportunity for a career within a successful and diverse organisation.

Some of our benefits:

• £450 yearly flexible benefit pot to use against benefits of your choice?
• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)?
• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package?
• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and life cover
• Flexible working?

About us:

It's an exciting time to be a?part?of the team?as Sovereign have joined?forces?with?Network Homes to form SNG (Sovereign Network Group).?Together?we provide over 84,000 homes and invest in?communities?across London and the South of England.?Our?purpose is to provide good?affordable?homes in thriving?communities?that people love for?generations.

We invest for the long term, in?individual?homes,?our?customers?and work?with?partners to make a lasting difference to?our?neighbourhoods. Sovereign Network Group's financial strength?will?enable us to meet?housing?needs,?regenerate?places and build on the existing strengths in?our?communities.

We are?committed?to?our?Equality?Diversity?and?Inclusion?strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG. Take a look at?our?careers site to learn more about us and?our?values.