Employment Advisor

Sovereign & Bale; Truro; Presencial; GBP 23.000 - 32.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Sovereign & Bale is recruiting an Employment Advisor to support people with multiple barriers toward sustainable work. You will manage a caseload, deliver tailored one-to-one guidance including CV writing and interview prep, and help participants navigate health, housing, or financial issues while liaising with employers.

In a fast-paced, target-driven environment you will promote the Restart Scheme, build strong relationships with stakeholders, and ensure clients reach KPI goals and secure

Formación

• Experience supporting jobseekers with barriers to employment.
• Ability to provide one-to-one guidance and CV/interview preparation.
• Proven track record in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.

Responsabilidades

• Meeting with and supporting a caseload of long-term unemployed jobseekers, identifying their barriers and creating tailored action plans to progress them into employment.
• Delivering personalised, one-to-one guidance to our participants including CV writing, interview preparation, and skills development.
• Meeting and exceeding performance targets and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Collaborating with participants to shift their mindset and build the confidence they need to find and sustain work.
• Engaging with local employers to identify job opportunities.
• Signposting participants to internal and external stakeholders to address specific barriers such as health, housing, or financial challenges.
• Promoting the Restart Scheme within the community, raising awareness of it's benefits and impact.

Conocimientos

Caseload management

CV writing

Interview coaching

Employer engagement

Time management

Coaching/Mentoring

Customer service

Descripción del empleo

The role of Employment Advisor requires a tenacious, highly organised, motivating and innovative individual, able to work in a fast paced target driven environment to support people with multiple barriers to move into sustainable employment.

Our Employment Advisors are highly self-motivated individuals who manage a caseload of participants to empower them in to sustained employment. With a positive can do attitude they are adept at brokering and sustaining exceptional relationships through reverse marketing with a myriad of employers and community organisations and stakeholders selling the benefit of work, whilst always putting the participant at the heart of every opportunity they create.

Employment Advisors work in a fast paced targeted driven environment, where prioritisation of own workload and exceptional time management skills are demonstrated daily to ensure effective caseload management, working to deadlines and achieving both KPI and target expectations in a peripatetic setting in the communities they work.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Taking Ownership

• Meeting with and supporting a caseload of long-term unemployed jobseekers, identifying their barriers and creating tailored action plans to progress them into employment.
• Delivering personalised, one-to-one guidance to our participants including CV writing, interview preparation, and skills development.
• Meeting and exceeding performance targets and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Working Together

• Collaborating with participants to shift their mindset and build the confidence they need to find and sustain work.
• Engaging with local employers to identify job opportunities.
• Signposting participants to internal and external stakeholders to address specific barriers such as health, housing, or financial challenges.
• Promoting the Restart Scheme within the community, raising awareness of it's benefits and impact.

Being Fair, Open, and Honest

• Providing inclusive support and advice to people from all backgrounds.
• Ability to demonstrate coaching/mentoring experience and persuasion/influencing skills through previous work or social activities.
• Experience of working in a customer facing environment (i.e. Recruitment, Hospitality, Customer Service and Sales).
• Experience of working in a fast paced, performance target driven environment.
• Willingness to travel locally (e.g. to meet customers/employers).