Happy Smiles CIC
Work & Inclusion Coach
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Work & Inclusion Coach
Job Description
We are Happy Smiles CIC, a multi-award-winning, disabled people’s-led organisation, doing disability differently, through lived experience.
Our team across the North West is over 90% disabled. We challenge stigma, raise expectations and deliver training, access audits, advocacy and support that create real opportunities for disabled people to thrive.
As a Disability Confident Leader organisation we proactively support reasonable adjustments in the workplace to ensure we recruit the very best people to our roles.
We are a Real Living Wage employer and winners of the Disability Smart Impact Award for workplace experience 2026, as well as many other awards celebrating our inclusive approach to employment. Put simply we employ people based on their strengths and values, working on a needs led, rather than diagnosis led approach.
See more at www.happysmilestraining.co.uk
With our Headquarters based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, we are growing our teams across the northwest in response to demand for our services across Manchester, Liverpool and Cheshire.
Our multi-disciplinary teams are locally based, locally knowledgeable experts and leads in their own communities. Creating local expert teams ensures our training, accessibility and support offers foster a culture of belonging and create bespoke local solutions, valued highly by our partners and commissioners.
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As a Work & Inclusion Coach you will:
- Support and coach our Lived Experience Experts, Involvement Representatives and Volunteers to develop, deliver and evaluate training programmes alongside Lead Facilitators across our Happy Smiles CIC projects and training workshops.
- Working relationally with people, the Work Coach will provide holistic support to overcome the barriers disabled and neurodivergent people may experience in relation to employment and volunteering.
- Working directly with individuals to promote independent skills, behaviours and expertise that build confidence and recognition across our Lived Experience Team.
- Supporting our dynamic training teams, you will work alongside the Training Manager, Lead Facilitators and Inclusion Coordinator, assisting with staff training and meetings to ensure communication always remains effective and transparent.
We have a range of hours available from 12 hours to 30 hours per week (Monday – Friday) which can be discussed at interview.
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Please note you must be a driver with access to a car with the will to travel across the Northwest region to apply for this role.
If there is a more accessible way to communicate with you please let us know.
Job Description and Person Specification: www.happysmilestraining.co.uk/support-us/work-with-us/
To apply for this role please send a covering letter outlining why you feel you meet the requirements of the role, along with your CV. If you would prefer to submit this information in another format, please feel free to do so.
We intend to close this role on 23 July with interviews planned to take place on Thursday 30 and Friday 31 July.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £13.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
Eligibility Question:
Do you have a current driving license and access to your own vehicle to travel across the North West Region?
Work Location: In-person, some work at Wigan Headquarters, some across North West
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