Job Coach Roles: 1 F/T & 1 P/T

Job Coach – Employability Service Wexford
Are you a confident, proactive and highly organised professional who can build relationships with employers and create job opportunities for others? Do you want a role with a sense of purpose, meaning, and satisfaction derived from your work?
Employability Wexford is seeking a motivated Job Coach to support people with disabilities to access and sustain meaningful employment. This is an active job-development role where finding employment opportunities is a core responsibility. The successful candidate will proactively approach employers, develop business relationships, identify potential vacancies and generate job opportunities for people with disabilities. This involves promoting candidates’ skills and abilities to employers, exploring opportunities beyond advertised vacancies and working creatively to secure suitable employment.
The role also requires excellent caseload management, planning, time management and administration skills, including maintaining accurate client files and completing monthly reports.
📍Office based in Enniscorthy, with responsibility for supporting job seekers and developing employment opportunities throughout South County Wexford.

Positions Available
• 1 x Full-Time Job Coach (Fixed-Term)
• 1 x Part-Time Job Coach (Fixed-Term)

Key Responsibilities
• Manage a full caseload of job seekers, supporting them towards sustainable employment.
• Actively generate and secure job opportunities by approaching employers, developing new contacts, identifying potential vacancies and creating opportunities where they may not already exist.
• Build and maintain strong employer relationships, promote job seekers’ abilities and negotiate suitable employment opportunities.
• Assess job seekers’ skills, strengths and aspirations, and support them with CV preparation, interview skills and job readiness.
• Provide ongoing support to job seekers and employers to promote successful workplace integration and job retention.
• Maintain accurate client files, record client activity and progression, and complete monthly reports and all required administration within deadlines.
• Liaise with families, employers, DSP and other relevant services to coordinate supports and address barriers to employment.

Essential Requirements
• Demonstrable confidence and initiative in approaching employers, developing relationships and actively sourcing and securing employment opportunities.
• Excellent organisational, planning and time-management skills, with the ability to manage a full caseload, prioritise competing demands and meet deadlines.
• Strong communication, networking, negotiation and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent administration and record-keeping skills, including client file management, progress tracking and report writing.
• Very good IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office.
• The ability to manage expectations realistically, communicate honestly and balance job seekers’ aspirations with available opportunities and individual support needs.
• A person-centred approach, with the ability to communicate sensitively with people with disabilities and empower them to achieve their employment goals.
• The ability to work independently, use initiative, solve problems and work effectively as part of a team.
• High standards of professionalism and confidentiality.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Full clean driving licence and access to transport.

Desirable
• A relevant third-level qualification in Adult Guidance, Recruitment, Business, Sales, Marketing or a related discipline.
• Experience in disability services, employment support, recruitment, sales, marketing or business development.
• Knowledge of employment legislation, recruitment practices and workplace inclusion.

About You
You are a confident networker who is comfortable picking up the phone, visiting businesses, meeting employers and actively promoting candidates. You enjoy building relationships, finding solutions and turning potential opportunities into real jobs.
You are equally capable of managing a busy caseload, maintaining high administrative standards, upholding confidentiality and providing sensitive, practical support to people with disabilities.
If you have the drive to find jobs, the organisation to manage a demanding caseload and the commitment to help people achieve meaningful employment, we would love to hear from you.

Applications should be made by emailing Cover Letter & Curriculum Vitae to info@employabilitywexford.ie – subject bar to read Job Coach Position.
Closing date for applications is 3.00pm Wednesday 28th Oct 2026. A panel will be formed from this process.