Are you passionate about supporting young people to achieve their full potential?
Are you motivated by helping people grow in skills and confidence?
Miss Macaroon is an award winning social enterprise, providing long term unemployed young people with multiple and complex needs with training, real work experience and future job prospects. We are an ambitious, growing, trendy and exciting food business focused on high quality growth in order to deliver on our social aims. We supply Facebook, Instagram and fashion brands with gluten-free French macaroons and re-invest 100% of the profits in our Macaroons that Make A Difference (MacsMAD) employability programme.
We specialise in supporting young people with multiple and complex needs, including those on the Autism Spectrum, with mental health issues, learning differences, ex-offenders, Care leaver and young people at risk of homelessness. We work in a trauma informed and strengths based way, a passion for supporting young people with additional needs, a high level of personal resilience and self awareness is a must for this role.
The role of the Employability Trainer and Programme Manager is to
- Build strong professional relationships with a wide variety of referring agencies, in order to obtain referrals to the programme and drive widespread awareness of the programme.
- Using risk assessments obtained from the referring agency make a decision on the suitability of candidates to attend the programme against clearly defined criteria.
- Build an appropriate professional relationship with candidates through effective communication and following a set procedure to build rapport, confirm the candidate’s commitment and ensure attendance.
- Organise and manage the delivery of the programme, including:
-- Resources e.g schedules, venues and materials to ensure the programme runs smoothly, to time and budget.
-- Deliver the programme’s registration, trainee risk assessment, induction, employability and personal and social development training and work experience sessions over a ten week programme.
-- Assess BTEC Work Skills folder work and use this as a coaching tool to support young people with complex needs to build their skills and achieve their ambitions.
–- Ensure that a quality service is being delivered, meeting the expectational and financial measures.
- Manage the Counsellor, Internal Verifier, work experience buddy relationships to ensure the programme is delivered effectively, candidates are fully supported and to be accountable for excellent training and employment opportunities, to identify issues and provide support for staff development and process improvement to ensure progress against individual and team targets and to drive programme improvement.
- Prepare monthly written reports on programme activity for submission to CEO and outside funding bodies.
- Keep accurate and up-to-date candidate and financial records as required, to comply with funding requirements and Company procedures.
You will be hard working, passionate, highly organised and committed individual who is excited by both our business and social aims.
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Put the needs of vulnerable young people first
- Are confident, with excellent communication skills
- Have strong emotional resilience, self awareness and emotional intelligence
- Enjoy working hard and are able to work under pressure, are adaptable and flexible in a constantly changing environment and like to take the initiative to improve processes
- Take pride in your work and have a high attention to detail
- Have strong experience working with and training young people with multiple and complex needs including mental health issues, learning differences, Autism and Care, offender and lone parents experienced backgrounds, or easily transferable skills.
- TO APPLY PLEASE SEND YOUR CV AND A COVER LETTER
This is a fixed term contract until April 2027.
Working for Miss Macaroon offers an exciting future in terms of development of your own career and role, as well as the opportunity to contribute significantly to the improvement of the prospects of young people in the Midlands. As the organisation grows you will have the opportunity to train mentors, work buddies and trainers, develop your own new strands of work to increase our social impact and take responsibility for the long term growth of the social impact of the company. If you are ambitious there are opportunities for you to develop and grow into higher level roles.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £32,000.00-£34,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Store discount
Experience:
- teaching: 2 years (preferred)
- working with people on the Autism Spectrum: 1 year (required)
- working with people with mental health issues: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
- QTS (preferred)
- Enhanced DBS certificate (required)
Work Location: In person
