Job Coach - Wollongong

Who we are:

atWork Australia is a leading employment services provider working with Australians living with disability, injury, health condition or those who require additional support, across the nation. We empower our clients, supporting them to build better working lives. 

To do that, we work with people to identify their goals and aspirations, build skills and job-readiness, and support them through interviews and into employment. We also work with prospective employers to ensure their needs for recruiting new team members are met. In short, our approach is to support a person in the way that best helps them transform their life, in pursuit of our belief that work’s for everyone.

Job Description

The Position:

If you’re looking for work with purpose that has that ability to change peoples’ lives, we want to hear from you. The Job Coach’s role is to guide our clients towards job readiness and enabling opportunities for employment.

On a typical day as a Job Coach you might be:

• Encouraging and motivating participants through appropriate activities to find their own employment;
• Mentoring clients to overcome employment barriers and supporting them through a tailored job plan;
• Networking with employers and reverse marketing clients to suitable jobs;
• Ensuring our clients, employers and those we work with, receive exceptional service at every stage of the process.

Qualifications

Attributes and Experience:

• Experience in a customer service or client facing role;
• Ideally, demonstrated experience of working with people overcoming challenges;
• Happy and confident liaising with multiple external and internal stakeholders;
• Proven experience working with targets and KPI’s.

Additional Information

What we will give you

• Ongoing career development and national opportunities;
• Access to MedHealth Academy including your own professional development plan;
• Opportunity to complete a Certificate IV in Employment Services *conditions apply
• Job stability and guaranteed full-time hours;
• Access to a range of benefits including discounts for health insurance, access to psychology services, ability to purchase additional leave, roadside assistance and paid parental leave.

APPLY NOW

If this sounds like the role for you, please select the ‘Apply for this job’ button to upload you resume. You can also find out more about atWork Australia here:

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 3,500 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.