Closing Date: Tuesday 21st July 2026
Job Title: Engage 2 Employ Coach
Reports to: Engage 2 Employ Youth Service Manager
Salary: Scale 6, Points 26-28, £27,016 – £28,821 per annum, pro rata
Hours of work: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Fixed Term Contract until 31st March 2027
At St Basils, we are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect our staff to create an environment and culture that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion and advocate for anti‑discriminatory practices and behaviours.
Purpose Of The Role
The Engage 2 Employ Coach delivers the collaborative programme “READY”, which combines the expertise of St Basils’ Youth Voice & Engagement and Employability teams. READY stands for Resilience, Empower, Aspire, Developing You(th), a playful yet powerful expression of our mission to help young people build confidence, unlock potential, and prepare for the world of work. This programme brings together youth empowerment and employability development, ensuring every young person we work with is READY to take their next step with resilience, empowerment, aspiration, and personal growth.
The role involves delivering engaging group work programmes and accredited learning activities to support NEET young people aged 16–25 who have experienced homelessness and live within St Basils projects. It also requires one‑to‑one advice, guidance and mentoring, helping young people to develop tailored career action plans and overcome barriers to progression. The postholder will champion St Basils’ Youth Voice principles, ensuring that young people are actively involved in shaping the services that support them and that their voices influence organisational decision‑making.
Main Duties
- Ensure timely and effective communication and promotion of Engage 2 Employ programmes and initiatives across multiple projects, supporting the recruitment of young people and sustaining their engagement, in partnership with Progression Coaches.
- Support the development of resources and materials for programmes and initiatives.
- Plan and deliver designated accredited group activities focusing on employability skills, supporting young people to achieve recognised accreditation as part of the programme.
- Conduct 1‑to‑1 and group inductions for young people identified by project staff ensuring smooth access to the programme.
- Carry out initial assessment to evaluate learner attainment levels and identify individual learning needs.
- Use lesson planning and structured learning schedules to meet contractual skill delivery outcomes.
- Apply creative and engaging teaching methods (e.g. sport, arts, digital media) to develop skills, confidence, employability, teamwork and citizenship skills.
- Assess learners’ work in line with accreditor standards and provide detailed feedback and support progression.
- Produce post‑programme reports on young people’s progress, outcome and achievements.
- Undertake grant applications and purchasing activities, ensuring all expenditure is accurately recorded, fully evidenced, and appropriately annotated as grant‑funded, where applicable.
Coaching, Mentoring and Support
- Build positive and trusting relationships with young people on both a group and 1‑to‑1 basis.
- Use coaching and mentoring approaches to motivate and constructively challenge attitudes and behaviours.
- Facilitate 1‑to‑1 sessions through the programme to provide high quality information, advice, guidance and pastoral support in accordance with Matrix Standards.
- Work with agreed KPI targets to support young people into employment, education or training opportunities.
- Support progression staff by providing specialist advice and guidance on young people’s engagement, education, qualifications and CV writing, working closely with the Partnership and Employer Liaison team within St Basils.
Quality and Compliance
- Ensure all delivery meets internal quality standards and complies with St Basils toolkits and contractual obligations.
- Contribute to the ongoing review and development of St Basils Learning Programmes for young people.
- Maintain accurate and timely recording of all engagement and learning activities on relevant systems.
- Provide success stories, outcome data, and case studies to support internal and external reporting requirements.
- Support quality assurance processes for accredited and non‑accredited programmes such as E&D/MST/Life Skills and contribute to the development of modules, where required.
Youth Engagement
- Support and coordinate the St Basils Local Engagement Offer ensuring young people’s voices are central to St Basils project grouping local service delivery and development.
- Facilitate support and encourage active involvement of House Representatives across groupings ensuring their feedback informs service improvements.
- Support the delivery of Time 2 Talk sessions.
- Support and recruit Youth Advisory Board members when needed.
- Coordinate and contribute to the Annual Youth Standards Review within groupings.
- Promote, encourage and refer young people to engage in research and focus group and staff recruitment.
- Be an active ambassador for St Basils’ Missions and Values and promote opportunities for young people to thrive.
- Work effectively in partnerships with internal colleagues, external agencies and community stakeholders.
- Work flexibly across locations, including evenings and weekends, including residentials, where required.
Essential Qualifications
- GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Mathematics at Grade C/4 or above.
- NVQ Level 4 in Information, Advice & Guidance, Coaching & Mentoring, or a relevant qualification in Education & Training (AET), or willingness to work towards.
Desirable Qualifications
- Approved Internal Verifier (AIV) qualification, or willingness to work towards a Level 4 qualification in Internal Quality Assurance.
Essential Role Experience
- Experience of working with young people in any of the following settings: employability, education and training, welfare to work, youth work, probation/criminal justice community/outreach or support work.
- Experience delivering/teaching group employability programmes.
- Ability to deliver a range of different activities.
- Proven experience of working with hard‑to‑reach learners.
- Experience of delivering advice and guidance, together with employment, education and training knowledge to young people.
- Experience of developing and working in partnership with internal departments and external agencies, leading to positive outcomes for service users.
- Experience of utilising ICT packages including Word, email, internet explorer, digital media and equipment such as projectors and digital cameras.
Desirable Role Experience
- Experience of delivering basic skills assessments: Numeracy, Literacy and ICT.
Essential Knowledge
- Strong understanding of the challenges young people face to education, employment and training.
- A sound knowledge of partner agencies that support young people in the local area.
- Broad knowledge of the welfare system.
- Understand the issues and needs of St Basils’ young people and the ability to engage them in a range of activities.
Desirable Knowledge
- Knowledge of Housing Policy and Youth Homelessness.
- Knowledge and ability to advise young people on benefits, available resources and how to access them.
Statistics 2024‑25
4,118 young people received advice and support1,685 young people were supported by us during the year1,053 young people lived in our 40+ accommodation schemesUp to 582 young people lived with us at any one time91% of young people moved on from St Basils in a planned, positive way
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