Mayors Academy Employment Placement Coach
The Vacancy
The Mayor’s Skills Academies have been created to help the hospitality industry as well as those Londoners hardest hit by the pandemic, supporting them into good work, such as direct employment, apprenticeships, traineeships, or self-employment/freelance work, and to aid the recovery and the long-term economic growth of hospitality and London.
Lewisham College's Hospitality Hub is part of the Mayor of London’s Skills Academies, working with employers in the industry to provide skills and work-based training programmes, and helping to recruit Londoners into a career in hospitality. Lewisham College also offers a wide range of training and support to help people get into work.
The Mayor’s Skills Academies has been created to help overcome barriers into employment and raise the awareness of the great opportunities and careers in the hospitality industry.
The Hospitality Hub is a centre of information about the industry and a place for employers to come together to tackle the real barriers faced by recent events. It partners with organisations representing the industry and works with them on short-term and long-term plans to raise the profile of the industry, promote it as a great career choice and make the hospitality sector more inclusive.
We are looking for an Employment Placement Coach to join our team. You will work with JCP and providers to promote courses and Sector-Based Work Academy Programmes to recruit new learners, This will include outreach activities including job fairs, JCP events, and visiting providers. You will manage the recruitment and enrolments of new learners and support them during their course, making sure excellent employer relationships are maintained and learners have an amazing experience on their course.
The successful candidate will have experience of working with unemployed adults and ideally have an advice and guidance qualification at Level 3 or above. Experience of supporting adults with returning to employment is essential and a positive and forward-thinking attitude to recruitment and learner support, while representing the College to maintain our professional and high performing reputation.
About Lewisham College
Lewisham College is a large further education college in London and we’re proud of our reputation for producing knowledgeable, successful students with great employment potential. We offer an exciting range of work-focused courses, and provide a friendly, supportive learning environment where talent is nurtured.
We have achieved excellent results in recent years, but we know that we can only continue our success, and grow, by recruiting and retaining the best possible talent. We set out to employ staff with a genuine passion for further education and a commitment to ensuring all students achieve their potential, whatever barriers they need to overcome. Our people make a real difference not only to the lives of students, but also to local employers and the wider Lewisham community.
Every colleague has a valuable and important part to play here at Lewisham College and all of our employees are well-supported. We offer a wide range of staff development programmes, benefits and support all designed to enable our people to continually improve and reward them for their hard work and dedication. If you have a passion for education and its power to improve lives, and want to inspire young people and adults, we’d love to welcome you to our team.
Lewisham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.
At Lewisham College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.
Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.
1. Being both inclusive and diverse
2. Trusting and respecting our communities
3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively
4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.
As part of the NCG Group, Lewisham College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.
NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.
To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.
NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
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Telephone: 0191 226 6390
Email: NCGRecruitment@ncgrp.co.uk