Job Title: Functional Skills Coach
Location: Loughborough
Salary: £11.35 per hour
Job type: Part time 30 hours a week – Fixed-term until March 2025
Falcon Support Services provides supported accommodation and community projects to those that are homeless, at risk of homelessness, or vulnerable in the community. Our service helps vulnerable people by providing safe and secure accommodation with our staff working alongside clients to help them develop their skills, so they can move away from homelessness to living independently and positively contribute to their community.
The Role
As a Coach you will provide support to customers identified as vulnerable, homeless or at risk of homelessness, in need of additional support to sustain their tenancy.
We will support those to access appropriate opportunities to better manage their money and enter meaningful employment, training, or education.
The Ideal Candidate
- Must be over the age of 18
- Must have access to a vehicle for business purposes with business insurance and Valid driving license.
- Exceptional confidence in numeracy, numbers, maths, and budgeting
- Experience of empowering individuals to make informed choices/positive change
- Experience of creating and running workshops or low-level training courses
- The ability to understand the needs of people from diverse, cultural, social and racial backgrounds
Main Responsibilities
- To work with clients on identified support needs, empowering clients to make positive changes and informed choices in moving forward
- You will encourage and support customers to budget appropriately and promote debt prevention and accountability
- Develop workshops to improve confidence with numeracy skills
- Improve capability of those to manage money through income maximisation and budgeting
- work co-operatively with other members of the team including volunteers, constructively contributing to team meetings, and assisting with the smooth running of the service
- To show willingness to and does assist and cover for colleagues and/or volunteers when they are absent
Benefits
- 28 days holiday (inc bank holidays) rising to 33 days from 01.01.23
- Birthday Leave – an additional day’s Birthday leave
- Comprehensive Induction Training Package
- Staff Employee Assistance Programme
- Our Family Flex Scheme (Hours amended to ensure you don’t miss out on the important key family events; the first day of school, sports days, nativity plays etc)
- Quarterly full staff team meetings
- Christmas Savings Club
- Staff Wellbeing drop in sessions
- Making a difference to people in need
- Varied work where no day is the same
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Functional Skills teacher, Functional Skills trainer, Skills Tutor, Skills trainer, Maths teacher, Literacy Teacher, IT Teacher, Support teacher, Functional Skills tutor, homelessness skills tutor may also be considered for this role.
