Sovereign & Bale
Job Coach
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Job Coach
Salary: £32,000
Contract: Permanent
Location: South Midlands (Covering Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, South Midlands, Leicester, and Rutland)
The Role
As a Mentor, you will support young people aged 18–24 to overcome barriers, build confidence, and move into sustainable employment. Managing your own caseload, you will provide tailored one-to-one support from initial assessment and job preparation through to employment and in-work support.
You will build effective relationships with participants, employers, and key stakeholders, helping individuals develop the skills, confidence, and experience needed to secure and sustain employment.
Key Responsibilities
- Build positive, supportive relationships with young people, encouraging engagement, motivation, and accountability.
- Manage a caseload of participants and provide structured one-to-one mentoring throughout their journey into and within employment.
- Complete initial assessments, identify barriers, and agree SMART action plans, reviewing progress regularly.
- Deliver confidence-building, motivation, work-readiness, and job-search support, including CV development, interview preparation, sector exploration, and soft skills development.
- Work with employer engagement colleagues to identify suitable employment opportunities and support recruitment, onboarding, and day-one preparation.
- Provide ongoing in-work support to participants and employers, including regular check-ins, workplace coaching, and discussions around reasonable adjustments.
- Develop and maintain in-work support plans with participants and employers, subject to consent.
- Rapidly re-engage participants who leave or fall out of work, helping them move back into employment, education, or training.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and audit-ready records, including action plans, contact notes, evidence, and outcomes.
- Work collaboratively with Jobcentre Plus, employers, training providers, and local partners to maximize sustained employment outcomes.
- Work flexibly across locations and, where required, outside standard hours to meet participant and programme needs.
- Carry out responsibilities in line with organizational values, policies, procedures, and relevant compliance requirements.
- Undertake other duties appropriate to the level of the role where the post-holder has the necessary training or experience.
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Skills and Experience
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- Experience providing one-to-one mentoring, coaching, or employment support to young people or individuals facing barriers to work.
- Experience within employability, welfare-to-work, youth employment, skills, education, training, or a similar target-driven environment.
- Strong ability to build trust, motivate participants, challenge appropriately, and maintain engagement through face-to-face, telephone, and digital contact.
- Good understanding of action planning, barrier removal, work-readiness, job matching, in-work support, and sustained employment outcomes.
- Ability to manage a caseload effectively, prioritize activity, meet deadlines, and achieve targets, quality standards, and compliance requirements.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills when working with participants, employers, and wider stakeholders.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, data protection, equality and diversity, health and safety, and participant consent requirements.
- Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office, digital communication tools, case management systems, and performance reporting.
- Ability and willingness to travel regularly across the local area to support participants, employers, events, placements, and programme delivery.
- Good knowledge of the local labor market, employer recruitment needs, and routes into employment, apprenticeships, education, and training is desirable.
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