Performance Coach

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Job Posting Title Performance Coach Date Wednesday, July 10, 2024 City Kirklees Country United Kingdom Working time Full-time

Description & Requirements

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Maximus is a global organisation that specialises in providing health and employment services to millions of people every year. Here in the UK we employ around 5,000 people across the country to deliver services that have a profound impact on people’s lives. From assessments and health services to employability programmes and specialist support, we do work that matters with people who care.

To drive a high-performance culture across our Employment Advisor teams. Identifying, sharing, and modelling good practice and providing development support to underperforming Advisors.

This role will largely involve one to one observations, co-facilitation of appointments and providing feedback to the EA being supported so they will have a clear, practical understanding of what achieves high performance.

To improve the individual performance of advisors either (1) at risk of being place on or currently on a performance support plans, or, (2) coach new advisors during induction on the behaviours / activities for consistent quality performance.

Facilitating / co-facilitating induction sessions on areas of employability (e.g., action planning, better off calculations, hidden jobs market, diary planning, caseload management etc) as well as delivering best practice training to established teams as agreed with their line manager or through collaboration with Training and Development

• Close liaison with Business Manager and Operations Managers to identify a caseload and prioritisation of employment advisors.
• Provide monthly feedback to the OM on observations and themes throughout the operation.
• Co-facilitation of individual advisors appointments to model best practice and to coach advisors to improve performance.
• Provide verbal and written feedback to an EA after each period of coaching for the individual to work on before the next performance coaching intervention.
• Written feedback should copy in the relevant BM and OM.
• Undertake follow observations 3 – 4 weeks after initial sessions to ensure that the learnings demonstrated at the previous interventions have been embedded into working practice
• Review and evaluation of high performing EAs with a view to identifying good practice and sharing this wider though developing tools alongside Training and Development.
• Working with Training and Development colleagues to identify and roll out learning opportunities to raise performance levels across provision and Employability as a whole.
• Support the Performance Manager with deep dive reviews of persistent areas of underperformance in branches to identify and address root cause issues.
• Work on other employability contracts / locations as required during implementation or when contracts are underperforming to share practice and improve outcomes.

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Individual Competencies

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