Employment Guidance Specialist

3 days ago


Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom The Growth Company Full time

The Growth Company's Employment team has an exciting opportunity for an Employment Advisor to deliver guidance and training services for unemployed individuals, contributing to their progression into employment, training, and education.

Within the Restart Scheme, you will be part of a government initiative that provides personalized support for up to 12 months to help people find a job in their local area and overcome challenges to employment.

We help make a lasting difference to people's lives by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Work as part of a team to coordinate and deliver advice, guidance, and training interventions that meet the needs of unemployed individuals, including Jobcentre Plus, local referral partners, colleges, employers, training providers, and recruitment agencies, to support people's achievement of skills and progression to employment, training, and education.
  2. Plan training and other interventions for each customer.
About You
  1. Ideal experience in training, guidance, advice, and counselling environments.
  2. Working to targets with excellent knowledge of the local labour market, methods of recruitment, and awareness of growth industries.
  3. Rapport building skills, professional and articulate communication.
  4. The ability to work under pressure in a high-performance environment.
  5. Well-developed IT skills, including management information systems, spreadsheets, diary management, and data security.
  6. Work to Key Performance Indicators and challenging targets.
  7. Ability to network and promote the organization.


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