Employer Engagement Consultant

3 weeks ago


South Tyneside, United Kingdom Northern Rights Full time

**Make a difference and join the team at Northern Rights.**

“We offer a dignified, work focussed service where unemployed people are given the support they need to overcome their barriers and achieve sustainable employment. The feedback has been outstanding, it’s incredibly rewarding to see the positive difference we are making to people’s lives.”- **Dawn Brown, Director of Northern Rights**

**Does this statement excite you?**

**We are recruiting for Employer Engagement Consultants who have a positive attitude and a desire to make a difference.**

Like Dawn, are you passionate about people and do you have a desire to change people’s lives for the better?

Would you like to join an amazing team of individuals chosen for their empathy, knowledge, and sheer determination to assist those living in the North East, progress and achieve work?

Our client, Northern Rights delivers Personal Development and Employment Support services to benefit disadvantaged people, in particular those with health problems (physical/mental and or social) into work. They have supported a substantial number of people from the North East with training and impartial Matrix accredited Information Advice and Guidance, helping local people make the transition to work.

The team are excited to be able to help more people into the workplace and are recruiting for Employer Engagement Consultants to join the team.

What we can offer you:

- A starting salary of £26,070
- Permanent employment
- Full time, Monday to Thursday 9 to 5, Friday 9 to 4
- Group Life Insurance scheme on completion of probation
- Company Sick Pay Scheme
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Family Friendly policies
- Development opportunities

Currently based in South Tyneside.

The Employer Engagement Consultant will use recruitment, commercial and relationship building skills, to generate recruitment opportunities. They will work with people who are ‘Job Ready’, supporting them to overcome their implicit and explicit barriers, immediate and long term, towards progression of obtaining work related activity.

**Experience**:
**Essential**
- Interacting with participants in a one-to-one environment
- Working with disadvantaged people
- Working to Team and/or Individual targets

**Desirable**
- Knowledge of the local area and its demographics
- Experience within a consultant background
- Experience in the Welfare to Work sector
- Experience of implementing structured support/action plans

**Skills**:

- A proactive approach with potential employers, understanding their requirements and business needs
- Ability to seek out and develop recruitment opportunities through excellent relationships
- Ability to encourage, persuade and motivate at all levels
- Empathy and belief in individuals with whom they interact
- Flexibility to cope with varying demands of the role
- Ability to problem solve and respond appropriately to a variety of situations
- Ability to prioritise and manage multiple participant interactions in a structured manner
- Good interpersonal, communication, listening and presentation skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- A great team player

**Your key duties will be to**:

- Develop current and new relationships with employers
- Support the promotion of Northern Rights to stakeholders and value-added collaborators to attract potential participants to the services sharing good news/success stories
- Identify suitable work placements, work trials, volunteering placements and employment opportunities
- Liaise with our training delivery teams and referral partners i.e. Jobcentre Plus, to support learners with the training needed to enable them to provide the skills, behaviours and attitudes employers require
- Work with participants who are currently in receipt of unemployment and/or sickness related benefits, to help and support individuals into sustainable employment, training or Job search
- To work as a team alongside the Personal Development Advisors, Employment Support Advisors, In-Work Support Advisor, internal Skills Team and management and Health and Wellbeing services

**Other requirements**
- Willingness to travel inside the designated work area and occasionally outside for meetings, training etc. with possible overnight stays if necessary
- Positive attitude to disability and health related problems
- Basic DBS Clearance

GCSE English Language - grades 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 or grades A*, A, B, C (or equivalent Level 2 qualification). _**If you do not possess this level of qualification, you will be required to achieve a Level 2 in a Literacy Assessment conducted at interview stage.**_

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

**Salary**: From £26,070.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Life insurance
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person



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