Engagement & Inclusion Coach - Scotland
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The Role
Are you passionate about helping individuals rebuild their futures through education and employment?
Do you have the confidence, enthusiasm, and creativity to engage and inspire learners within a prison setting?
We are looking for a dynamic and motivated Engagement and Inclusion Coach to join our prison education team in Scotland.
You’ll work across multiple touchpoints—including learner inductions, residential halls, and prison events like careers fairs—using a trauma-informed approach to build trust, understand individual goals, and guide learners towards education and employment opportunities.
About the Role
As an Engagement and Inclusion Coach, you will:
- Lead engaging learner inductions, ensuring a supportive introduction to prison education and employment pathways.
- Advocate for education as a tool for rehabilitation and career development, helping learners see how it aligns with prison employment opportunities.
- Engage learners across different settings, from residential halls to prison events, fostering motivation and participation.
- Support initial assessments, including BKSB Maths & English, ALN assessments, and the Employability Diagnostic Questionnaire (EDQ).
- Work closely with Careers Information, Advice, and Guidance (CIAG), SPS staff, Vocational/Industries teams, and employability partners, including the DWP, to ensure a structured and supportive learner journey.
- Provide pastoral care, addressing barriers to engagement and supporting emotional and academic growth.
- Encourage participation in learner forums and lived experience sessions, empowering individuals to share and contribute to their development.
- Champion restorative practices, helping learners take accountability for their actions and develop constructive behaviours for rehabilitation.
We are looking for:
- A relevant qualification in coaching, mentoring, or education (or working towards one).
- Level 2 Maths & English (or Scottish National Level 4 equivalent).
- Experience in coaching, mentoring, or teaching – ideally within a prison, rehabilitation, or employability setting.
- An excellent communicator – with strong relationship-building and collaboration skills and a strong presence with the ability to inspire learners.
- Able to develop innovative ways to engage learners.
- Able to manage multiple priorities effectively.
Who We Are
Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day.
We use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year. Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, independent living, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.
To put it simply, we:
- Support people to find and keep jobs
- Help people to set up their own businesses
- Deliver skills training to further people’s careers
- Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
- Rehabilitate people with convictions
- Tackle the root causes of offending
- Help people to live independently
- Support carers
We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.
Our Benefits
A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year
25 days annual leave
Cycle to Work scheme
Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal
Employee Assistance Programme
Access to online wellbeing centre
Enhanced Wedding leave
A paid volunteering day each year
Testimonials
"I have worked within PeoplePlus for 6 months now, my team is amazing and full of support. I have been given many opportunities to expand my role and learn new skills, always supported by management and my colleagues."
"PeoplePlus is a great place to work as they care about and support their employees whilst challenging them to grow within the company. The core values contribute effectively to the company culture of honesty, communication and self-improvement enabling staff to be heard and feedback and share opinions in a progressive way. Staff are always empowered to perform and motivated by achievement thereby creating a positive environment within which to support the well-being of others."
"I have loved my time since joining PeoplePlus as an Administrator for the Restart Scheme in Stockton. After a few months I enrolled onto Level 3 HR Support apprenticeship through the internal apprenticeship programme. Since then, I have joined the Contract Assurance team as Compliance officer for the Northeast. I have a great support system within the organisation and have been given many fantastic opportunities to help progress my professional development. "
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