Position: Skills for Work & Life Co-ordinator (Employability)
Salary: £28,628 (Grade 8)
Hours: 36.25 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Lincoln - with expectation to travel to Linkage sites across southern Lincolnshire
Responsible to: Employability Manager
Closing date: Sunday 14th June 2026
About the role
The Skills for Work & Life (SFWL) Co-Ordinator will lead the development and delivery of innovative employability and life-skills programmes within a specialist education environment. The role focuses on creating meaningful, real-world learning experiences, expanding employment opportunities, and supporting learners to transition into work and independent living.
A key aspect of the role is transforming traditional social care activity models into purposeful, work-related opportunities that lead to improved employment outcomes, increased independence, and greater inclusion within community and workplace settings.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Programme Development and Delivery:
· Lead on the design and implementation of community-based project learning, establishing and sustaining offsite partnerships.
· Convert social care day activities into meaningful work placement-style activities, ensuring a clear focus on skill development and employability outcomes.
· Develop and deliver classroom-based workshops in collaboration with external employers.
· Design and implement Skills for Work & Life (SFWL) projects, including contribution to new initiatives.
· Work collaboratively across teams to embed employability and life skills within everyday learning.
Employer, Community and Workforce Engagement:
· Build and maintain effective partnerships with employers, community organisations, and stakeholders to create high-quality off-site work placements.
· Widen participation by increasing the number of individuals in social care accessing meaningful, community-based work opportunities.
· Support organisational aims of delivering more meaningful and sustained employment outcomes for learners and individuals accessing services.
· Work with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to deliver Connect to Work pathways, including exit planning and referrals.
· Collaborate with Skills for Work & Life Leaders within the Choices directorate, to enhance project-based learning and training opportunities.
· Support income generation activities, including the development and delivery of supported internships, with focus on expanding provisions across more of our service and locations.
Embedding Employability:
· Coordinate Teacher Encounter opportunities, enabling staff to engage with employers and understand how curriculum areas apply in real-world contexts.
· Track and monitor employment-focused CPD for education staff to ensure consistent development of employability-focused practice.
· Support staff in shifting practice towards work-focused, outcome-driven activity models.
Learner Progression and Outcomes:
· Support learners to develop practical employability and life skills through structured, real-world experiences.
· Promote progression pathways into supported internships, employment, further education, or training.
· Contribute to the strategic aim of increasing access to meaningful, sustainable employment opportunities.
Quality Assurance, Compliance and Health & Safety:
· Participate in the management and review of learners engaged in placements or supported work (PWS), ensuring high-quality provision.
· Conduct and support health and safety assessments for all off-site activities and placements.
· Maintain clear documentation and tracking of learner participation, outcomes, and employer engagement.
What Linkage can offer you
We pride ourselves on investing in our people. Alongside comprehensive training and development, we offer career progression opportunities, incremental salary progression and a competitive benefits package, all underpinned by our commitment to quality, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Please note that successful candidate(s) will be asked to evidence their Right to Work in the UK post-job offer – we do not hold a sponsor license therefore we are unable to provide Visa sponsorship.
As an equal opportunities employer, Linkage Community Trust is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Linkage
All applications for this vacancy are to be submitted online, and strictly no agency calls or agency CV submissions. Communication is undertaken via telephone & email, we advise you check your inbox and junk mail, All CV's received will be requested to complete an application in line with safer recruitment practices. Should you be offered a role you will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check.
Safeguarding is a priority for us. We are fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and we expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers. Linkage pays full regard to safer recruitment practices and we ensure that all appropriate measures are applied in relation to everyone who works in the organisation.
Pay: From £28,628.00 per year
Work Location: On the road
