About the Role
Are you looking for a rewarding role that will allow you to utilize your current skills to influence, support and encourage others to build a future? Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference to people's lives? If so, this might be the position for you. We’re currently recruiting for an Employment Adviser to join our amazing team.
You will provide advice and support to guide and encourage participants to overcome barriers to employment and achieve realistic job goals. You'll manage a caseload of participants, coach and mentor them, be their principle highly trusted contact and help them obtain sustainable employment.
Key Responsibilities
* Meet, and strive to exceed, personal performance targets (Key Performance Indicators).
* Progressively manage a caseload of referred customers using a variety of appropriate strategies to help them overcome barriers to gaining employment.
* Deliver a positive experience to new customers, ensuring they engage with you and the programme.
* Achieve the Customer Service Standards required on the programme.
* Facilitate a range of assessments with each individual, using a suite of tools, to fully understand a customer's personal circumstances, ambitions and goals.
* Where required, provide appropriate advice and guidance on the basics of self‑employment and signpost customers to internal self‑employment specialist that can further support customers in respect to self‑employment.
* Co‑produce personalised tailored Action Plans featuring SMART targeting to enable positive and timely progression.
* Provide tailored support in all aspects of job‑search and interview preparation to ensure that customers are matched to the right job that enables them to sustain employment.
* Where required, provide appropriate training/guidance to customers to help them master digital technologies, for them to engage in guided self‑service learning materials and online job vacancies.
* Ensure all relevant evidence requirements are met to verify job starts.
* Fully understand the local labour market, to source suitable job opportunities.
* Undertake direct marketing to employers using digital media e.g., email, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.
* Market specific customers to employers.
* Identify the specific recruitment needs of employers and undertake tailored pre‑screens and group assessments.
* Develop relationships with key stakeholders to maximise job opportunities, i.e., federation of small businesses, chamber of commerce, JCP partnership managers.
* Maintain hard copy and system‑held customer records to the required compliance and quality standards.
* Develop an understanding of specialist signposting services in the local area/region, building knowledge in areas such as specific disabilities, housing, benefits etc. Knowledge to be applied where appropriate during caseload management.
* Proactively participate in continuous improvement activities to ensure that the service continues to deliver excellent customer service.
* Acts as an employee owner always considering the best interests of the company, shareholders and other colleagues.
* Ensures best practice is identified, adhered to and championed.
* Is prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of the role, including any necessary travel and overnight stays.
* Accountable for own professional development and undertake necessary training as identified in the Performance Review process.
* To handle personal data in accordance with the organisation's data protection policy.
* Actively participate in, and promote Prevent and the safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
* Adhere to the company's policies and procedures always, including safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion, quality, health and safety and IT.
* To undertake any other duties, as required, appropriate to the post.
Essential Skills and Experience
* A good working knowledge of the local labour market in the specified geographical locations.
* Basic knowledge of self‑employment.
* Fully IT literate in using a range of Microsoft Office programmes.
* Experience of working in a target driven environment.
* Experience of delivering services to meet contractual and quality standards.
Desirable Skills and Experience
* Knowledge of the employability industry.
* Knowledge of the recruitment industry.
* Experience of working with people in the provision of 'information, advice & guidance'.
Employment Details
Location: Office‑based role in Warrington.
Hours: 37 hours a week – Monday to Thursday 8:30 am to 5 pm, Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Benefits
* Competitive salary range of £26,500 to £29,545 per annum (dependent on experience).
* 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy additional days).
* 2 Volunteer Days.
* Pension – 5% Employee 5% Employer.
* Healthcare cash plan, including 3 × salary life assurance.
* Annual pay review.
* Refer a Friend Scheme.
* Free access to BenefitHub – an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, cycle‑to‑work scheme and additional voluntary benefits.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Seetec is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
About Seetec
Seetec is one of the UK’s leading providers of employability and health services, supporting thousands of people to move into employment each year. Committed to empowering people to better their lives, Seetec supports individuals from all walks of life to enter and progress in the world of work. We create and source jobs and opportunities, and by focusing on people’s strengths we raise aspirations and help them overcome their barriers to work and develop the skills that employers are looking for.
As an organisation, we are recruiting for a number of employability contracts to support the unemployed back to work. This role will play a key part in contributing to the UK’s economic recovery, 'Restart Scheme', which is a cornerstone of the government’s 'Plan for Jobs' strategy and the expansion of the existing Work and Health programme (WHP). Seetec is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.
Seetec holds Investors in People and Investors in Wellbeing Gold status and is rated 'good' by Ofsted for our market‑leading training and skills delivery. We are a Disability Confident Leader and B‑Corp certified, meaning we meet rigorous standards on transparency and delivering social value in the places where we work. We have significantly grown and evolved from our original not‑for‑profit roots in 1984, but throughout our history our commitment to delivering social value has remained at the heart of our culture. Our colleagues – across offices in the UK and Ireland – are dedicated to improving the lives of thousands of people every year by identifying and delivering the support they need to be more skilled, productive and prosperous. Our foundation is the strength of our people and their expertise, insight and determination to change the lives of those they support. It was therefore a logical step at the beginning of 2020 to put our future in the hands of our colleagues and become majority employee owned. We are now one of the largest employee‑owned businesses in the UK where every employee is a stakeholder in our collective success.
In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we’re offering a competitive salary range of £26,500 to £29,545 per annum with a very generous benefits package.
Interested? There's an easy to apply route below to upload your CV! If you need any further information, talk to our experienced Internal Recruitment Team on 01702 595200.
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