Job Details
- Salary Grade 8, £34,434 – £38,221 (pay award pending)
- Contractual hours 37
- Basis Full time
- Region Doncaster
- Job category / type Education – Non-Teaching
- Contract Type: Temporary fixed term to 31st March 2027
- Closing date: 07 June 2026
- Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure required
Job Description
Based at: Civic Office, Waterdale, Doncaster, DN1 3BU
These posts are subject to final funding confirmation and may be extended to 31 March 2029.
These posts are considered suitable secondment opportunities; applicants should obtain prior approval from their current employer if applying on a secondment basis.
The City of Doncaster Council is a confident, ambitious organisation focused on improving the lives of its residents.
Role: Ambition Coach – a dual‑role position with two posts: Job Matching Function and Personalised Support Function.
Ambition Coach (Job Matching Function)
You will serve as key liaison between personalised support and employer engagement to shape and deliver a robust job‑matching service.
You will work closely with other Ambition Coaches to identify and support job‑ready clients, and with the employer engagement team to identify and shape relevant job opportunities that align with client needs, skills and ambitions.
You will contribute to operational plans to provide work‑ready support to existing and new individuals and drive sector engagement and employment support to local employers.
Key focus: Inclusive employment, helping people, driving positive change.
Ambition Coach (Personalised Support Function)
This role delivers personalised employment support under Pathways to Work.
You will work collaboratively with commissioned services and partners to provide inclusive and sustainable employment pathways.
Operating within the internationally recognised Individual Placement and Support framework, you will offer holistic, targeted assistance to clients such as those with substance misuse, experience of care, caring responsibilities, refugee and veteran status.
Through wrap‑around services you will help clients progress toward work and achieve long‑term positive employment outcomes, promoting confidence, wellbeing, independence and opportunity.
Benefits
- Competitive leave entitlement
- Generous local government pension scheme
- Wellbeing support and staff networks
- Development and training opportunities
- Staff discounts and benefits schemes
- Additional benefits details available in the attached benefits booklet.
Shortlisting will occur week commencing 8 June 2026 and interviews the week commencing 15 June 2026. Early start date preferred.
For further details or an informal chat please contact Ryan Johnson, Tel: 01302 736544, email: Ryan.Johnson@doncaster.gov.uk or Alistair Boyd-Meaney, email: Alistair.Boyd-Meaney@doncaster.gov.uk.
City of Doncaster Council is committed to meeting the needs of a diverse community, safeguarding and promoting welfare across all ages, and is a Disability Confident employer providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process with reasonable adjustments for disabled applicants.
Address
Civic Office
Waterdale
Doncaster
DN1 3BU
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