Key information

• Permanent position (full time)
• Monday to Friday (9am-5pm)
• 45 Days Holiday
• Must Drive and hold full UK driver’s license
• Salary: £25,000 per year
• Enhanced DBS (Desirable)

Here at JEP Talent we are looking for excellent Education Coordinators to join our team at JEP Youth Engagement.

JEP Youth Engagement is determined to support young people to fulfil their potential. You will need to deliver engaging sessions to our young people, focus the sessions on improving their life chances and communicate with all stakeholders with a view to tracking and monitoring the progress of each individual you work with. You will share and report on sessions through feedback forms, weekly logs and reflections and termly reports.

What we can offer you

• Support from dedicated and knowledgeable Team
• Continual professional development through online and face to face training
• Competitive pay rates related to your experience
• Opportunities to enhance career prospects within an exciting unique organisation
• Membership of a Pension Scheme

Responsibilities

• To engage our students during activity sessions
• Support students with different NCFE subjects and modules, such as mathematics, English, Art, Humanities and Sports studies
• Daily attendance reports to schools, weekly progression reports, weekly reflections and termly reports
• Mentor students and encourage them to make better life choices
• Develop relationships with young people to support their progression
• Liaise and work alongside schools, parents and other professionals

What we're looking for

The successful candidate will have excellent communication, support skills and a high level of empathy.

• Ideally 1+ years’ experience working with young people in an education
• English & Math skills.
• Functional IT Skills
• Knowledge of safeguarding processes
• Reliable & self-motivated.
• Ideally has an Enhanced DBS
• GCSE English and Maths (grade A-C) or level 2 literacy and numeracy
• Experience supporting children and young people with complex health needs (desirable).

Work Location: In person at our learning hubs/around Greater Manchester

The Company’s Child Safeguarding Policy applies to all adults, including volunteers, working in or on behalf of the Company.

Everyone in the education service shares an objective to help keep children and young people safe by contributing to:

• Providing a safe environment for children and young people to learn in education settings; and
• Identifying children and young people who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm, and taking appropriate action with the aim of making sure they are kept safe both at home and in the education setting’. Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education DfES 2007

The Company pays full regard to DfES guidance ‘Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education’ Jan 2007. We ensure that all appropriate measures are applied in relation to everyone who works for the Company who is likely to be perceived by the children as a safe and trustworthy adult including e.g. volunteers and staff employed by contractors. Safer recruitment practice includes scrutinising applicants, verifying identity and academic or vocational qualifications, obtaining professional and character references, checking previous employment history and ensuring that a candidate has the health and physical capacity for the job. It also includes undertaking interviews and, where appropriate, undertaking List 99 and Criminal Records Bureau checks completing the academies disqualification declaration forms.