Employment Specialist

5 months ago

Sheffield, United Kingdom Trigon Recruitment Full time

**Role:

- Employment Specialist**

**Location:

- Sheffield**

**Salary:

- £25 - 26k**

Trigon Recruitment are recruiting for a National Training Provider with a fantastic reputation and incredible investment in people. Working on the IPES contract, you will be supporting job seekers with physical and mental health conditions. Working intensively with a maximum caseload of 25 participants who have a health condition which impacts on their ability to gain work or stay in work. Assisting them to obtain and sustain employment that is consistent with their vocational goals. This is a community based role with referrals coming from JCP. Being a driver with a vehicle is a must for this role due to the nature of the peripatetic delivery.

**Responsibilities**:

- Build relationships with local job centres and referral partner organisations to ensure a steady flow of participants
- Work with participants to move them closer to the labour market
- Conduct initial meeting with participant to build rapport, gain consent to proceed with the service.
- Support participants to understand their skills, aspirations and goals through the completion of a Vocational Profile and produce an Action Plan to obtain and sustain competitive employment in line with their preferences
- Assisting participants to understand their benefits through the delivery or sign posting for In Work Benefit calculations and sourcing additional financial support
- Achieve a job start target of 1 per calendar month
- To develop effective working relationships with a range of external agencies who might be better able to help individuals to achieve their employment goals.
- Develop collaborative working relationships with employers to enable support to be provided to participants in work, and to help employers understand how to better support their staff. In particular, ensuring the service is focused on accessing the hidden labour market to unlock potential jobs that match with participant preference
- Source job opportunities for participants through tailored job search and regular contact with employers
- Promote the benefits of supporting participants to access employment, aiming to raise the profile of IPS services and raise expectations around the ability of participants to access paid employment
- To assess individual support needs related to work which might typically include help with benefits, travel to work, managing health at work etc. and sign post on for support needs
- Provide individualised in work support using the place then train model and ensuring effective support networks are in place to achieve sustainment
- To maintain a professional relationship with the participants of the programme and with other staff, with particular attention to confidentiality and maintenance of professional boundaries
- Management of an active caseload of up to 25 participants to meet personal and team targets and KPIs and provide caseload support internally to colleagues
- Track customers to monitor their progress. Gather the evidence required as part of the reporting and claims process

**Essential Criteria**
- Demonstrate experience of supporting disadvantaged job seekers with mental and physical health complaints
- Demonstrable experience of successfully working to targets
- Proactive approach to engaging with participants and sourcing potential referrals
- High level of optimism, initiative and effective interpersonal skills in order to engage effectively with participants, clinical teams and employers
- Good employability skills
- Proactive diary management and organisational skills
- Ability to plan and organise workload to meet required targets and deadlines
- Accurate identification of participant support needs both pre and post-employment, with appropriate interventions delivered by self, or sourced through additional support networks
- Experience working with employers to develop job opportunities for participants, and to support them whilst in work
- Attention to detail and ability to work to a defined delivery structure

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000.00-£26,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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