Employment Coach - Birmingham, United Kingdom - BID Services

BID Services

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
Birmingham

Type:
Full-time,37 hours per week

Salary:
£23,474 per annum

Contract:
Permanent

Closing date:
Flexible

Interview date:

TBC

Do you have prior experience and passion for working with people with a sight loss? Perhaps you have a background working for a Charity, within an equipment service or even a specialist disability employment service? Would you like to be the part of their success story by supporting them into employment? If so, we would love to hear from you
We are seeking an Employment Intervention Worker (Visual Impairment) to join our Employment team to deliver high quality one to one pre
- and post-employment support and mentoring to our inactive and unemployed service users who have sight loss. We are looking for someone, who is passionate about working with people with a Visual Impairment and motivated to action change and improve employment accessibility for our VI Service Users.

The main responsibilities of this role:

Supporting the service user's progression using a mix of holistic support, challenge and mentoring techniques, keeping a focus on achieving sustainable employment and/or training/education at all times.
Liaising with partner agencies to deliver a joined up offer.
Maintaining up to date records of action planning and support provided and report on monitoring information

To be successful for this post, you will have:

Experience of working with people who have a Visual Impairment, in a 1-1 or group capacity.
Knowledge of a range of Visual Impairment conditions.
An understanding of the barriers faced by people with a Visual Impairment, such as Social barriers and barriers to technology especially in the labor market and how these can be overcome.
Have or able to develop relationship with stakeholders/organisations
Employment experience however this is not essential as training will be provided
Sound knowledge of Safeguarding and GDPR
Good level of English as recording case notes is essential in this role

Benefits and Training:

We strive to create an inclusive and diverse workplace and we are committed to _wellbeing, promoting hybrid working, offering generous annual leave entitlements, an Employee Assistance Program, Health Cash Plan, Occupational Sick Pay scheme, and flexible TOIL scheme._ We invest generously in training and development programmes, providing sponsorship to pursue formal professional qualifications and the opportunity to learn and develop sign language skills.

Salary:
£23,474.00 per year

Benefits: