Employment Training Advisor

My client, a Southeast London local authority seek an experienced Employment and Training Advisor to start this ongoing temp booking.

Main Purpose of the job:
The Jobs and Skills team is responsible for supporting local unemployed residents into work, increasing their skills, and working with local employers to secure new job opportunities for Lewisham residents. This roles provides a comprehensive, effective,integrated, systemically informed employability service as part of the Connecting Communities programme. This includes

The purpose of this role is to provide;
- Management of complex cases and supporting the development and delivery of the programme.
- Excellent employment work practice, assessing complex need, planning, and working purposefully with individuals, training and education providers, and businesses and the wider employment stakeholders to promote positive outcomes.
- To work with a range of providers and employers to source innovative and dynamic opportunities leading to longer term and satisfying educational and employment opportunities.
- To provide an employment and skills service which is both relationship-based and which responds in a timely manner.

Will be joining an existing delivery team, who work remotely in community locations in resident facing, caseload carrying roles.
- Experience of delivering ESF / EPMU contracts, and working to those contractual requirements
- Experience of delivering employment support to unemployed people, working to targets relating to people starting work
- Experience of working autonomously in outreach/ community locations
- Strong emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills, customer service.
- IT literate using MS Office & CRM systems
- Good communication skills

£21.96 PAYE / £27.18 LTD UMB per hour

Immediate start

Booking confirmed until June/July 2023 with potential extension

Monday to Friday 35 hours per week