Trainer in Liverpool

Location: Liverpool

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: The Growth Company

Job Hours: Full-time

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Trainer

The Growth Company’s (GC) Employment team have an exciting new opportunity for a Trainer to deliver a range of high-quality training services for unemployed people, contribute to individuals’ progression into employment. Within the Restart Scheme, you will be part of a government initiative that provides personalised support for up to 12 months to help people find a job in their local area and help overcome any challenges that might be standing in the way of employment.

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.

Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop materials and training courses designed to progress customers into employment.

Establish and deliver both group and one-to-one activities as part of client interventions including initial assessments and inductions with clients.

Deliver both group and one-to-one intervention(s) following induction and assessment:

Deliver a wide range of training courses in groups and one to one intervention’s including but not exclusively, basic IT, effective job search, job clubs, confidence and motivation, telephone techniques, transferable skills, hidden job market, Barriers to employment.

Seek ways to continuously improve service and own performance and report to Manager on this.

Carry out associated Administration work including report writing, updating internal systems, collecting, and analysing management information, evaluating service delivery and audit and review of records.

About you:

A warm, approachable style to delivery is required in order to build relationships and rapport with customers.

A flexible approach to location and courses delivered.

Skills Required:

PGCE qualification or equivalent.

Recent experience of delivering training to customers with a wide range of needs and barriers.

Experience of working with long-term unemployed customers.

Additional qualification in ESOL/Learners with Additional needs/Numeracy & Literacy.

Ability to work with challenging customer groups.

Capability to deliver a wide range of training solutions for all GC.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.