Employment Specialist

CV-Library

Posted on Sep 27, 2024 by CV-Library
Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Education
Immediate Start
£29k - £29k Annual
Full-Time
Educated Appointments are delighted to be supporting an award-winning, accredited social enterprise in hiring an Employment Specialist to join their Pioneer program.

As one of the largest providers of skills and training in the UK, we are dedicated to supporting businesses and individuals with apprenticeships, higher education and commercial training.

We help people to develop their skills across a diverse range of sectors and levels, with our Ofsted Grade 2: Good provider status, and work with leading businesses to ensure our curriculum boosts the career prospects of individuals and productivity of businesses.

Main Purpose

This is a fantastic role to work within the Greater Manchester area to build relationships with both participants and local businesses.

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.

Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.

Responsibilities

* Be able to build and maintain strong and positive relationships with Participants in the Greater Manchester area, which will enable you to use vocational profiling to help build a support and development plan.

* Proactively and effectively work with the participants to prepare/progress them into employment- supporting them through their individual barriers to secure sustainable employment.

* Confidently form connections with local businesses/services such as Local Authorities, Jobcentre Plus, National Probation service/CRC and a wide range of voluntary/community groups.

* Utilising multiple systems and services such as Ingeus Hub to accurately input all participants data, Personal Support Team (PSTs) and Social Prescription Network.

* Working from local hubs and “pop-up offices” within the community ( E.G housing, health and primary care centres) to increase participant activity and services accessibility.

* Advocate with employers on the participants brokering job opportunities that meet the participants needs and continuing support for up to 6 months after an successful job offer.

* Help with administrative work, including report writing, conducting audits, collecting information and paperwork.

Experience

* Experience working in a fast paced and target driving environment is essential.

* Previous work with guidance, advice, and counselling environments.

* Experience in recruitment is advantageous.

* High level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions to a Grade 2 standard.

* Have worked with people who have multiple and complex needs (health conditions and disabilities) and have knowledge of support agencies that can benefit/assist individual needs, such as Debt, substance misuse, housing etc.

About you

* Must be confident and approachable.

* Great communication skills, both written and verbal.

* Be extremely organised and thrive under pressure.

* Comfortable in working with IT and Microsoft suites (Excel & Word)

Reference: 222224675

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CV-Library

Employment Specialist

CV-Library

Posted on Sep 27, 2024 by CV-Library

Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Education
Immediate Start
£29k - £29k Annual
Full-Time
Educated Appointments are delighted to be supporting an award-winning, accredited social enterprise in hiring an Employment Specialist to join their Pioneer program.

As one of the largest providers of skills and training in the UK, we are dedicated to supporting businesses and individuals with apprenticeships, higher education and commercial training.

We help people to develop their skills across a diverse range of sectors and levels, with our Ofsted Grade 2: Good provider status, and work with leading businesses to ensure our curriculum boosts the career prospects of individuals and productivity of businesses.

Main Purpose

This is a fantastic role to work within the Greater Manchester area to build relationships with both participants and local businesses.

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.

Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.

Responsibilities

* Be able to build and maintain strong and positive relationships with Participants in the Greater Manchester area, which will enable you to use vocational profiling to help build a support and development plan.

* Proactively and effectively work with the participants to prepare/progress them into employment- supporting them through their individual barriers to secure sustainable employment.

* Confidently form connections with local businesses/services such as Local Authorities, Jobcentre Plus, National Probation service/CRC and a wide range of voluntary/community groups.

* Utilising multiple systems and services such as Ingeus Hub to accurately input all participants data, Personal Support Team (PSTs) and Social Prescription Network.

* Working from local hubs and “pop-up offices” within the community ( E.G housing, health and primary care centres) to increase participant activity and services accessibility.

* Advocate with employers on the participants brokering job opportunities that meet the participants needs and continuing support for up to 6 months after an successful job offer.

* Help with administrative work, including report writing, conducting audits, collecting information and paperwork.

Experience

* Experience working in a fast paced and target driving environment is essential.

* Previous work with guidance, advice, and counselling environments.

* Experience in recruitment is advantageous.

* High level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions to a Grade 2 standard.

* Have worked with people who have multiple and complex needs (health conditions and disabilities) and have knowledge of support agencies that can benefit/assist individual needs, such as Debt, substance misuse, housing etc.

About you

* Must be confident and approachable.

* Great communication skills, both written and verbal.

* Be extremely organised and thrive under pressure.

* Comfortable in working with IT and Microsoft suites (Excel & Word)

Reference: 222224675

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