Employment Support Specialist

2 weeks ago


Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom Finch Henry Job Corps Center Full time

Finch Henry Job Corps Center is recruiting for an Employment Support Specialist to join our dedicated team. This exciting opportunity involves providing motivational support to help individuals achieve their career aspirations and secure sustainable employment.

About the Role

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a caseload of referred customers, delivering a positive experience, and facilitating assessments to understand individual goals and aspirations.

Main Responsibilities
  • Progressively manage a caseload of referred customers using a variety of appropriate strategies to help them overcome barriers to gaining employment.
  • Deliver a positive experience to new customers, ensuring they engage with you and the programme.
  • Facilitate a range of assessments with everyone, using a suite of tools, to fully understand a customer's personal circumstances, ambitions, and goals.
  • Where required, provide appropriate advice and guidance on the basics of self-employment and signpost customers to specialist agencies that can further support customers in respect to self-employment.
  • Co-produce personalised tailored Action Plans featuring SMART targeting to enable positive and timely progression.
  • Provide tailored support in all aspects of job search and interview preparation to ensure that customers are matched to the right job that enables them to sustain employment.
  • Where required, provide appropriate training/guidance to customers to help them master digital technologies, for them to engage in guided self-service learning materials and online job vacancies.
  • Fully understand the local labour market, to source suitable job opportunities.
  • Develop relationships with key stakeholders to maximise job opportunities, i.e., federation of small businesses, chamber of commerce, JCP partnership managers.
Requirements
  • A good working knowledge of the local labour market in the specified geographical locations.
  • Basic knowledge of self-employment.
  • Experience of working in a target-driven environment.
Benefits

We offer a competitive salary, ranging from £28,000 to £31,000 per annum, depending on experience. In addition, we provide:

  • Up to 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + Birthday Day off, per year;
  • Long service award, an extra day's annual leave per year completed, up to 5 additional days;
  • 5 days paid sick leave per year;
  • Employee referral scheme, up to £500 per successful referral;
  • Sabbatical Leave the right to request up to 1 month's unpaid sabbatical leave;
  • Season ticket loan of up to £1000 per year;
  • Pension contributions;
  • Career development opportunities;
  • 2 volunteering days per year;
  • Ability to purchase an additional 3 days annual leave per year;
  • Death in service benefit, including an Employee Assistance Programme.

Estimated salary: £30,250 - £33,650 based on average UK salary ranges.



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