Foundations to Education Co-ordinator - Stafford, United Kingdom - Staffordshire County Council

Staffordshire County Council

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Stafford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Job Introduction
Our Foundations to Employment Co-ordinator forms part of our Care Leavers Offer Team. The teams is focused on developing and delivering the best possible service to our young people Leaving care. We are responsible for ensuring that Staffordshire's 'Offer' to Care Leavers is robust, and the delivery of that offer is consistent for care leavers across all of the district teams

The team consists of Housing Personal Advisors, Foundations to Employment Co-ordinator and a Welfare Benefits Officer.

The team are responsible for providing technical expertise to support our Personal Advisors and Senior Practitioners for PAs on the district teams.

The Foundations to Employment Co-ordinator will focus on raising the aspirations and opportunities for our young people in relation to accessing and engaging in employment and training.

Main Responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to join a pro-active and passionate team, at a time when Staffordshire have robust and creative plans in place to develop our offer to Care Leavers.

As an F2E Co-ordinator your main responsibilities will include:

delivering employability skills sessions to young people

- sourcing work placements from local businesses and companies for our young people to undertake
- supporting and encouraging the young person to engage in, and successfully complete, the work placement, with a view to them gaining full time employment at the end of placement
- attending site visits to monitor progress on placements and intervening at times to resolve any issues
- liaising with multi-agency professionals, to work collaboratively to achieve the best possible outcomes for our young people
- monitoring and tracking progress of young people involved in the programme

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation.

Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together.

This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people.

We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do.

We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.