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Job Coach / Broker - Journey Guide

Employer
Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire
Location
Coventry, West Midlands
Salary
£24,982 - £27,041
Closing date
12 Nov 2020
Reference
GV/ACC2020

Job Details

Accelerate is a partnership of organisations across Coventry and Warwickshire that helps disadvantaged people find employment. Within the partnership, Grapevine specialises in supporting people with a learning disability and autism. We build strong relationships with both the person looking for work and the employer once work is secured. We are now looking for a high-energy, creative and confident person who can help people with disabilities build their employability skills and then find paid employment.

We have two posts available. One is a full-time position working with people in North Warwickshire and the other is a part-time post focusing on people within Coventry. To apply please download the job pack, application form and equal ops form. Once completed, please return to finance@grapevinecovandwarks.org

For more information please download our application pack.

Benefits

- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (FTE)

- Flexible working

- Free EAP

- Stakeholder pension scheme plus 8% employer contribution

- A friendly workplace with a strong culture of helping people uncover their potential

Closing date Wednesday 12th November, 12pm midday, interviews will likely be held on the week commencing 16th November.

Please be aware that we are looking at interviewing over Zoom for safety reasons.

Accelerate is a Building Better Opportunities Project funded by the European Social Fund and The National Lottery Community Fund, delivered by a local partnership of organisations providing people with access to a wide range of job support services. Both posts available are funded until March 31st 2022. Registered Charity 1107969

 

Company

We’re a social action charity that’s best at reinventing itself in response to people’s needs.

We help services, funders and systems find new ways to create deep social change. We’re willing to be bold, remove the box and bring edge-based solutions into the middle.

Our three strands of action in Coventry, Warwickshire and nationally are strengthening people, sparking community action and shifting power. 

In November 2020, we hosted a summit to help harness community spirit for the future with 98 people from all walks of life and a public sector summit for 68 professionals to help cement new ways of working accelerated by the pandemic into everyday practice.

We were keeping over 500 isolated people strong and well as the crisis struck. That number more than doubled to 1,232 during 2020.

Our experience

We celebrated our 25-year anniversary in 2019 after starting life in 1994 as a drop-in in Spon End, Coventry for people with learning disabilities.

We learned who they were, what their dreams were and what they could offer and realised that way of working could help many others too. The answer to their problems lay in community, not specialised services.

Now we work with all kinds of people experiencing poverty, disadvantage and isolation.

Working for us

We offer a friendly workplace with a strong culture of helping people uncover their potiential. We’re committed to diversity and inclusion in our team and across our work, treating every person we meet as an individual with unique passions and skills.

In addition to our ethos, our employee benefits include:

  • Flexible working
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (for full-time roles, pro rata for part-time)
  • Stakeholder pension scheme plus eight per cent employer contribution.

Meet the Grapevine team

Here’s what some members of our team have to say about working for Grapevine. We look forward to getting to know you too!

“I came to Grapevine as a service user, I grew to believe in their work and saw how much it helped our family to grow and change our thinking.” (Mel Smith, Grapevine Deputy CEO)

“Our jobs are so varied. Seeing people achieve things that either they thought they wouldn’t be able to or were told by society they couldn’t. I can’t help but miss people when they move on to great things but I know it’s because they feel confident to do it without our support and that’s great.” (Molly Gillespie)

“Grapevine has helped both my family and myself to find a new outlook for our lives. I have also witnessed several other transformational journeys as Grapevine staff have walked side by side with someone.” (Melissa Smith,  community organiser)

“I’m proud of the difference Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire is trying to make in a UK that just keeps getting tougher for vulnerable people.” (Andrea Mbarushimana,  from Help and Connect)

Company info
Website
Telephone
024 7663 1040
Location
123 Upper Spon Street
Spon End
Coventry
West Midlands
CV1 3BQ
GB

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