Toucan Employment is a specialist supported employment charity supporting young people and adults with learning disabilities/difficulties and autism to find and retain rewarding employment.
Toucan Employment is seeking an enthusiastic and, ideally, experienced employment adviser and job coach to lead on a new project in South London. Working from our Southwark office with outreach work across Southwark you will be providing 1:1 employment and job coaching support to up to 30 Older Southwark (25+) residents with learning difficulties/disabilities and autism.
The successful applicant will be a passionate about tackling the obstacles people with learning difficulties/disabilities and autism face in finding work. You will be able to work to your own imitative and be able to engage with a range of stakeholders including businesses, training providers, Southwark residents with learning difficulties/disabilities and autism, their parents and carers, the Job Centre, and partner organisations.
Working with the CEO and other staff members, you will be leading on a project helping Southwark residents with learning difficulties/disabilities and autism who are long-term unemployed or economically inactive into work. You will be working in line with the Toucan Employment project strategy and will have experience of monitoring and evaluation, working to tight deadlines and demanding targets as well as providing information advice and guidance.
A highly rewarding job for a person with energy, resilience and the ability to organise their own time and schedule.
You will receive 25 days off per annum (rising to a maximum of 28) as well as public holidays, and Christmas closure (not taken as annual leave)
Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressing the points in the person specification.
Contact the CEO at Toucan Employment (alex@toucanemployment.org) to receive the person specification.
Closing date is 5pm on Tuesday 6th August.
Interviews are scheduled for 14th and 15th August.
