We are looking for a competent Job Coach to help young people with disabilities to enhance strengths and improve their job skills. The core role of the job coach assistant is to provide tailored support to our young people to enable them to learn from and maintain their internship placements and to progress successfully into paid sustainable employment. The Job Coach will be required to work with learners on a 1:1 basis to ensure individual needs are met.
· Attending workplace inductions and first day or first few days at work
· Mentoring and confidence building
· Learning the job role in readiness for training the intern
· Training the intern to proficiently learn and deliver tasks
· Breaking down tasks, sometimes applying systematic instruction techniques
· Modelling workplace behaviours
· Review progress
· Encouraging intern self-assessment/reflection
· Re-phrasing or repeating employer instructions
· Checking interns’ understanding
· Negotiating an increase in responsibilities or new activities
· Supporting interns to try out new ways to do things if they are not successful at first
· Trouble-shooting or advocating for intern when things go wrong
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To apply for this position please download the application form and supporting documentation and send completed applications to vacancies@redwood-school.com by 9am on Monday 29th July 2019.
The ability to converse at ease with customers and service users and provide advice in accurate spoken English is an essential requirement of this post.
The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to this post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring and background check.
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