Title: Employment Advisor
Location: This is anoffice-based role, working in Birkenhead
Salary: 26,500 - 29,545
Job Type: Permanent, Full time, Onsite - 37 hours
Monday to Thursday 8.30amto 5pm, Friday 8.30am to4.30pm
JobRole
Are you looking for a rewarding rolethat will allow you to utilise your current skills to influence,support and encourages others to build a future? Are you lookingfor an opportunity to make a difference to people's lives? If so,then this might be the position for you.
Onbehalf of our client, one of the UK's leading providers ofemployability and health services, we are recruiting for anEmployment Advisor to join their amazing team. You will provideadvice and support to guide and encourage participants to overcomebarriers to employment and achieve realistic jobgoals.
You'll manage a caseload ofparticipants, managing their journey to employment, be their coachand mentor and be the principle highly trusted contact to buildstrong positive relationships, guide, motivate, challenge,encourage and help customers obtain sustainableemployment.
The ideal candidate will haveexcellent customer service skills, be target driven as well as amotivational advisor. You'll have a high level of initiative andmotivation with the ability to seek out solutions to problems, andbe able to work under pressure, without day to day supervision.However, our client is not always looking for someone who ticksevery single box they are looking for someone who can provide afirst class customer service, driven by our overarching aim toempower lives and improve communities.
Inreturn for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, our clientis offering a competitive salary range of 26,500 - 29,545 per annum(dependent on experience) with these great additionalbenefits:
Benefits
* 25days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with theopportunity to buy additional days)
* 2 VolunteerDays
* Pension Scheme- 5% Employee 5%Employer
* Health InsuranceAllowance
* Employer Paid Healthcare Cash Plan,incl. 3 x salary life assurance
* Annual PayReview
* Refer a FriendScheme
* Free access to BenefitHub - an onlineportal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, cycle towork scheme and additional voluntarybenefits
There are also progressionopportunities.
KeyResponsibilities
* Excellentpeople person with very competent communicationskills
* You'll also organise and conductjob-search,
* Identify any potential barriers toemployment.
* Ensuring all paper-basedemployability tools such as covering letters, CV's, speculativeletters are inplace
Skills andExperience
Essential
* A good workingknowledge of the local labour market in the specified geographicallocations
* Basic knowledge of self-employment
* Fully IT literate in using a range ofMicrosoft Office programmes
* Experience ofworking in a target driven environment
* Experience of delivering services to meetcontractual and qualitystandards
Desirable
* Knowledge of theemployability industry
* Knowledge of therecruitment industry
* Experience of working withpeople in the provision of 'information, advice & guidance'
* Full drivinglicence
AdditionalInformation
You may be required toprocess a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS/DS) check. Our clientsupports the recruitment of ex- offenders and will not discriminatein any way.