Employment Specialist

4 weeks ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire) Full time

**East Midlands Chamber is a well-respected and award winning organisation that aims to enhance businesses and communities in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. With more than 4,000 members, we have established a reputation as the voice of the region's economy.**

**Job title**: Employment Specialist
**Salary**:£26,520 to £30,000 per annum
**Based at**:Nottingham. Regular travel required between delivery locations across Nottinghamshire
**Contract**: Fixed term until 29 November 2024, full time (35 hours per week)

**1. WHY THE POST EXISTS**

Are you passionate about making a difference and helping others? Would you like to work in an environment that puts the customer (our participants) at the heart of everything we do?

As an Employment Specialist within the Employment Services department you will play a key role in delivering welfare-to-work programmes and the Individual Placement and Support approach, which aims to help people who have a health condition or disability, the long-term unemployed and other specified disadvantaged groups (Early Access Groups) find, enter and sustain paid employment.

You will be a self-motivated and target-driven individual who has a track record of delivering excellent customer service and wants to help people achieve their full potential.

**2. THE KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY**
- Manage a caseload of participants using the Individual Placement and Support approach.
- Provide person-centred advice and guidance to participants.
- Meet participants to understand their key skills, aspirations and goals as well as assessing support needs.
- Complete Vocational Profiles and produce Action Plans.
- Build positive relationships with local employers to enable participants to move into suitable employment including sourcing job opportunities and raising awareness of reasonable adjustments, return to work strategies and ongoing contact.
- Work collaboratively with Primary Care and NHS teams, job centres, VCS organisations and training partners to maintain positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to recovery through employment.
- Able and willing to travel across Nottinghamshire to meet participants and employers to ensure our services are accessible to all.

**3. IDEALLY APPLICANTS WILL POSSESS**
- A can-do, upbeat and energetic attitude.
- Be self-motivated and looking for a unique challenge.
- Are confident delivering employability support both one-to-one and in group settings.
- Have excellent local knowledge of support services and employment opportunities.
- Able to show compassion and build rapport with participants.
- Able to motivate participants and support them to achieve their goals.
- Has experience of working towards challenging targets.
- Thrives on challenging targets.
- Passionate about helping people to achieve their potential.
- Be dependable, reliable, trustworthy and capable of exercising diplomacy.
- Experience of working within a welfare to work or IPS programme, or similar relevant role.

**4. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN RETURN**
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays each year (pro rata for part time).
- 8% non-contributory pension scheme.
- Wellbeing support including access to Westfield Health plan, Mental Health First Aiders, self help toolkits, discounts and more.
- Your Birthday off plus an extra day of leave after 5 and 10 years' service.
- Life assurance (death in service support scheme) for your beneficiaries.
- Dress for the day policy and agile working practices (role dependent).
- 2 CSR days to take per year (volunteering activity).
- Access to tax-free childcare and Bike2Work schemes.
- Special leave for bereavement, compassionate leave & dependent related time off.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Flexibility to take unpaid leave, paid study leave & special leave for territorial army.
- Recognition and engagement schemes including our Our Stars.
- Tax free 45p per business mile for cars (up to 10,000 miles per year).

**5. HOW TO APPLY**

If you have an enthusiastic approach to your work and feel you could make a significant contribution to our organisation, we would like to hear from you.

**6. COMPANY STATEMENT**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract

**Salary**: £26,520.00-£30,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- No weekends

Work Location: In person

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