Employment Advisor

**Role:

- Employment Advisor**

**Location:

- Scunthorpe**

**Salary:

- £26,000**

**Role overview of an Employment Advisor**

Trigon Recruitment are recruiting for a reputable national training provider for an Employment Adviser. This role will carry a caseload of customers who are unemployed and referred by Job Centre Plus. An Employment Adviser will use a variety of techniquesincluding effective diagnosis/initial assessment to identify barriers to employment, individual and group coaching, developing paper based marketing tools such as CV’s, supporting and improving interview techniques, speculatively approaching employers withand on behalf of the customer to source vacancies and maximising on any Participant funding available to achieve sustainable employment.

Experience working in the welfare to work/employability sector is an advantage but if you have worked as a travel consultant, recruitment and/or HR advisor/consultant, worked as a retail manager or any role where there is an emphasis on being a great peopleperson with an ability to achieve targets then this role could be a good fit for you.

An Employment Adviser will work towards targets relating to job starts and sustained employment,

**Main duties of an Employment Advisor:

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- Work towards a job start target each month
- Achieve sustained job outcomes each month
- Manage a caseload of customers and support them into work
- Create a smart and robust action plan for each customer
- Fully coach, motivate, inspire and develop customer employability skills
- Fully preparing customers for job interviews
- Ensuring all paper based employability tools such as covering letters, CV’s, speculative letters are in place
- Carrying out benefit calculations
- Signposting where applicable to partner agencies
- Liaising with employers to source exclusive job opportunities
- Fully updating the organisation database in a timely manner

**Key skills and attributes required for an Employment Advisor:

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- Organised and able to manage a caseload of job seekers
- Target driven
- Tenacious
- Driven
- Empathetic
- Motivational
- Inspiring
- Understanding
- Patient
- Deep understanding of employability
- Excellent people person with very competent communication skills
- Resilience

Please send your CV to apply. For an informal/confidential chat please call Craig Doyle at Trigon Recruitment.