Employment Advisor

Standguide Group; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading employment services provider in the UK is seeking an Employment Advisor to attract and guide participants towards sustainable employment. You'll be responsible for establishing connections with relevant partners, ensuring participants understand the program, and conducting group training sessions. The ideal candidate has experience in a performance-driven role and must possess Level 2 English and Maths. This role includes various benefits, such as a generous pension scheme and CPD training opportunities.

Benefits

CPD training

Generous pension scheme

Company health plan

25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays

5-10 sick days per year

Qualifications

• Experience working in a performance target-driven environment.
• Examples may include being an Employment Advisor, Recruitment Consultant, or business development roles.
• Willingness to travel locally to meet participants/employers.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with Job Centre Plus and relevant partners.
• Sign participants up to the program following documentation procedures.
• Explain service offerings and ensure participants understand their rights.
• Manage participant expectations and engage them during group training sessions.

Skills

Level 2 English and Maths

Strong administration skills

Good computer/technology skills

Basic numeracy skills

Good written communication/record keeping skills

Interest in people

Education

Overseas equivalent qualifications

Job description

Role: Employment Advisor

Salary: £27,000 per annum rising to £28,500 after completion of successful probation period

Contract type: Permanent

Working hours: Part Time (22.5hrs PW)

Location: GL5 & GL7

For over three decades, we have been dedicated to supporting individuals and employers across the UK. As a nationwide market leader, we have assisted over 13,000 people in the past year alone to retrain, embark on new career paths, or establish their own businesses.

Join us as an Employment Advisor! The role involves attracting, registering, and guiding participants towards successful placements. Utilising diagnostic skills, individual and group coaching, and optimising available funding, you'll empower individuals to secure sustainable employment. You may operate across various locations, including fixed sites and community venues, ensuring accessibility for all. Meeting targets and adhering to program obligations and processes is essential in this role.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain relationships with the Job Centre Plus and other relevant partners through regular telephone contact, visits, and newsletters as appropriate to ensure participants are aware of our services and to allay any concerns, they may have with accessing or utilising our services
• Sign participants up to the programme following system and process guidance e.g., accurate and timely completion of documentation
• Explain our service offering (details of the programme) including ensuring the participants understand their rights and responsibilities (e.g., complaints & feedback process), whilst registering the participant in accordance with contractual obligations and eligibility criteria
• Identify, clarify, and manage the participant expectations of the process including data protection, confidentiality and ground rules of the programme and the relationship to achieve buy-in to the programme
• Engage and empower participants whilst delivering group training sessions, with the aim of progressing them to achieve sustainable employment.

What you’ll need

• Level 2 English and Maths as a minimum
• Experience of working in a performance target driven environment. Examples of such experience may include working as an Employment Advisor on a similar contract, being a Recruitment Consultant or experience of Business Development roles, sales targets in a retail business or call centre etc.
• Technical skills include strong administration skills, good computer/technology skills, basic numeracy skills and good written communication/record keeping skills
• Personal interests include interest in people and willingness to learn
• Personal circumstances include willingness to travel locally (e.g., to meet Participants/Employers).
• Overseas equivalent qualifications will be accepted.
• We welcome applicants with lived experience and encourage applications that reflect the relevance to the post.

Benefits

• CPD - Broad range of internal training to enhance your knowledge and skills
• Generous pension scheme, with the option to opt out
• Company health plan subject to successful completion of probation period
• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays
• 5-10 sick days per year paid.

Join us at Standguide and be part of a team dedicated to making a meaningful impact on individuals' lives and businesses nationwide.

Standguide is an Equal Opportunities Employer and a Disability Confident Leader. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and value the diversity of our staff and customers. We thrive on creating positive working relationships, free from discrimination.

Successful candidates will be subject to satisfactory references and enhanced DBS check.

For the full job description and person specification, please email Amy at recruitment @standguide.co.uk.