Career Adviser

2 weeks ago


Oldham, United Kingdom Positive Steps Full time

**Title**: Career Adviser

**Hours**: Full and Part time hours

**Salary**: £29,300.42 Pro rata

**Reporting**: Project Manager

**Contract**: Fixed term until 31/03/2025

We are looking for a qualified and experienced individual to join us in providing impartial and high-quality Careers Information, Advice and Guidance for young people (pre and post 16). This will include face to face and virtual, 1:1 and group activities, in schools/colleges and community settings.

You will find the best ways to help young people make effective decisions and achieve successful transitions. This role will require you to establish effective partner relationships with schools, colleges, learning providers, employers and key partners.

We deliver contracts, predominantly, across Tameside, Oldham and Rochdale and you would be expected to travel throughout these Boroughs if needed.

**Closing Date**:Monday 12th February 2024 at 1pm

**Interviews**: Monday 19th and Wednesday 21st February 2024

**JOB PURPOSE**

To provide a range of career guidance and support services for young people and/or adults

**PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Manage a caseload of clients to provide a range of tailored guidance, support and advocacy services to improve outcomes for clients
- Manage a caseload of clients in line with relevant legislation, quality standards and best practice to safeguard the service
- Maintain strong relationships with partners to improve outcomes for clients
- Conduct diagnostic assessment, assessment analysis and interventions to improve outcomes for clients
- Undertake accurate, timely recording on digital caseload management system to meet contract requirements
- Undertake any other duties in order to meet service and organisational objectives following consultation with your manager

**Key Relationships - Internal & External**
- External - Local partners and education providers
- Internal - Staff and volunteers

**Qualifications and Specific Training**
- Educated to level 6 in Careers Guidance and Development

**Experience**
- Demonstrable experience of working with young people or adults in the field of careers guidance or a related field
- Demonstrable experience of developing productive and effective relationships with young people or adults
- Demonstrable experience of planning, monitoring and evaluating your own work
- Demonstrable experience of multi agency working
- Demonstrable experience of communicating through verbal and written presentations
- Demonstrable success in promoting diversity

**Knowledge**
- Understanding of Education and Guidance Services
- Understanding of safeguarding legislation and guidance, implementation of Child Protection Procedures and the boundaries of professional relationships
- Understanding of the role of education and guidance in adolescent
- Understanding the impact of education and guidance to improve life opportunities
- Understanding of Health & Safety legal requirements and best practice

**Skills**
- Developed communication and presentational skills, with the ability to communicate ideas, issues, systems and procedures successfully at all levels to a variety of audiences
- Developed skills in creativity and original thinking with the ability to develop practical solutions to problems
- Developed inter -personal and team working skills
- Primary skills in Microsoft Office and database systems
- Developed ability to engage individuals and partners

**Personal Attributes**
- Sound judgement and awareness of organisational and political sensitivities
- Ability to manage the service through the phases/challenges of its development Resilient and able to work independently as required
- Sound professional and tactical judgement and the ability to establish priorities and principles
- Commitment to Positive Steps vision and value

**Additional Requirements**
- Prepared to work flexibly to meet the needs of customers and the organisation
- Ability to travel throughout the region
- Occasional weekend working
- Enhanced DBS required

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

**Salary**: £29,300.42 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Are you willing to have an Enhanced DBS check?

**Education**:

- Diploma of Higher Education (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oldham, OL1 1DJ


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