What is the job role?
Fixed-term contract to 31st March
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Skills, Employment and Adult Education service and be part of our Job Shop delivery. Our projects are part funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the West Midlands Combined Authority’s and HM Government’s Commonwealth Games Legacy Fund.
As a Job Coach, you will be part of the Welcome Team delivering a first-class service to provide residents a high-quality and personalised service to ensure they receive full support, enabling them to move closer to and into good quality employment. You will have passion to help others by effective job coaching and supporting people into work.
Who are we looking for?
You will need to be excellent at developing positive working relationships, an effective communicator, able to work with a wide range of people from different backgrounds, disabilities, and mental health, and crucially have the skills and ability to listen, understand and identify how you can support each customer in a positive manner.
You will meet and greet customers and form part of the Welcome Team to triage each customer, identify needs, provide support and be solution focused.
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Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
1. Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
2. Are currently in care or have previously been in care
3. If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
Interview date(s): tbc
About Coventry
Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.
We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.
At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.
To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.