Young Person's Career Coach

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'.

We achieve this in two ways. First, we improve lives on the frontline through delivery of public services. Secondly, we use our knowledge to change 'the system', to fix the complex web that can trap and disempower those it was set up to help. With the heart of a charity, and the mindset of a business, we are uniquely placed to deliver on this challenging agenda.

Our Young People & Families (YP&F) Hub delivers a wide range of integrated support services that are designed to help resolve complex difficulties experienced by young people and their families/carers.

Support is provided to people who find themselves in a range of circumstances; they may be missing from home, or have emotional, housing, or substance misuse issues. We also support families where parents/carers are experiencing domestic abuse, sexual violence, substance misuse, emotional issues, homelessness, or unemployment. Whatever the situation, we work alongside young people and their carers to find a way of stabilising their lives.

Job Description

The role of Young Person's Career Coach is an excellent opportunity to provide tailored employability support to a caseload of young people, managing and developing their skills to encourage progression into sustainable employment and apprenticeships.

Main Duties and Accountabilities

• Assessing needs of young people, to understand their barriers, career ambitions, development areas, training opportunities. Developing strategic relationships with key stakeholders to identify new employability programmes.
• Managing a small caseload of young people with career plans and progression, accurately identifying their needs, challenges, career ambitions, strengths, and development areas, and signposting where relevant.
• Delivering high-quality in-work support, and advice and guidance, for young people on our employability programmes, that sustains participants for an appropriate amount of time, ensuring that participants sustain progression into apprenticeships and sustained employment.
• Running group work sessions such as interview techniques, job searches, CV improvements, and confidence building, to support and motivate young people, preparing them to a high standard for interview with employers.
• Completing goal focused action plans for young people, preparing CVs, cover letters, job/apprenticeship application forms, job packs, undertaking job searches with participants, and arranging interviews where appropriate.
• As a key outreach link, developing strategic relationships with key stakeholders, and engaging with the local community, to successfully identify young people for employability programmes – this includes supporting the delivery of any relevant events, job fairs, workshops, and seminars.
• Collating, completing, and demonstrating case studies, monitoring, and data inputting, ensuring timely input and communication of key documents and information, to ensure high contractual compliance standards, and effective delivery of operational KPI targets.

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Qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following skills and experience:

• 5 GCSE's at Grade C or above, or equivalent.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to gain people’s confidence, and put them at ease.
• Flexible, adaptable, persuasive, and patient, with a positive approach to problem solving, and a can-do attitude.
• Target and results driven, with good organisational and administrative skills, and the ability to prioritise.
• Able to effectively cope with pressure, working to deadlines to produce reports.
• Experience of working in the employment sector.

Additional Information

Salary: £30,000 per annum
Hours of work: Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: The Hive, London (South Hampstead)

*This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

Catch22 is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice will be followed and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

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.

About the company

Catch22 is a social business. We design and deliver services that build resilience and aspiration in people and communities across the UK.