Employment Support Worker

SHROPSHIRE COUNCIL; Shrewsbury; Hybrid; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A local council in the UK is seeking an Employment Support Worker to assist individuals with disabilities in finding employment and developing necessary skills. The role focuses on job coaching and fostering relationships with local employers. Employees benefit from generous leave, a pension scheme, and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Benefits platform discounts

Employer Pension Scheme

Flexible working opportunities

Access to counselling services

Responsibilities

• Support people with disabilities into employment.
• Develop skills for independent travel.
• Build relationships with local employers and services.

Job description

Enable is a section within Shropshire Council which supports people into education, training and employment. We have a team of contracted and casual employment support workers within Enable who support people with disabilities into employment and related activities. This involves job coaching people entering employment or supporting them to develop skills required for independent travel. It also involves developing a wide range of positive relationships with employers, employment services and social care and health services across Shropshire.

Shropshire Council is a unitary authority which serves the rural county of Shropshire. One of the most important things about working here is the knowledge that you are working to help others and the real sense of achievement and purpose that brings. The people of Shropshire are rightly proud of their county's assets, its natural beauty, its history, its diverse economy, its vibrant culture.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave commencing at 28 days, increasing with service to 33 days (pro rata for part time) with an additional annual leave purchase policy.
• Access to a benefits platform with a wide range of retail discounts and salary sacrifice schemes (cars, bikes, AVCs).
• Employer contribution Pension Scheme – Shropshire County Pension Fund.
• Supportive carers and parental policies (maternity, paternity, adoption leave, special leave).
• Many opportunities for flexible and agile working; we offer a hybrid model of working to promote flexible working around personal and family commitments.
• Access to counselling and occupational health services.