Employment Advisor - Basildon and Brentwood
Are you ready to embark on an incredible career opportunity with Vita Health Group? Are you looking to take the next step and develop your skills? Would you like to have the opportunity to grow and develop your skillset within a friendly, established team? If so, this role is perfect for you!
Hello! We are Vita Health Group and have a great opportunity for an Employment Advisor to join our Basildon and Brentwood service. We have recently been recognised as being one of the UKs best health care companies to work for, and we want you to become part of that! As a people-centred company, we are keen to develop individuals careers where their interests apply. So, if you're looking to enhance your skill sets, progress your career or focus on your personal growth, please read on.
Main duties of the job
You will work within an employment advice service, working closely with clinicians who provide psychological therapies to people with common mental health problems.
You will offer employment support to services users with common mental health problems to gain, return to or retain employment.
The role involves working with job centres (including some face-to-face visits across the region), employers, trade unions and employment agencies to keep people in employment and secure employment opportunities.
You will also create a culture of prevention and early intervention ensuring that people get timely access to health support and suitable employment support to avoid long term unemployment.
This role involves remote working and approximately one day in our Basildon office per week.
Job responsibilities
Skills and experience:
* Grade C GCSE English and maths or equivalent.
* Experience in providing careers advice, IAG with work-related barriers
* Able to travel around the local Basildon and Brentwood area at least 1 day per week
* Building new relationships that are strategically relevant.
* Working as part of a team and contributing to collective strategies and goals.
* Evidence of further study in vocational training, careers advice and job retention.
* Understanding of Talking Therapies and integrated care
* Experience in a target-driven environment
* Proactive in relation to on-going professional development to stay up to date with industry knowledge.
* Experience of working in a healthcare environment.
* Experience of supporting people with mental health conditions into vocational/employment activities
About us
Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do. Now part of Spire Healthcare Group plc we have been providing physical and mental health services for over 30 years.
We are an award-winning employer recently recognised nationally as Best Company to Work for at the Health and Wellbeing Awards 2024.
This is also recognised by current employees our most recent Employee Survey results showed the top 5 reasons to work here as being:
* Supportive team and management
* Positive work environment
* Wellbeing and mental health support
* Trust and respect
* Autonomy and flexibility
We are keen to progress your skills and enable career development and provide regular Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme, apprenticeships and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.
Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and is seeking to improve the diversity of its workforce. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity.
Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check.
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