Strategic Employment Support

**Strategic Employment Support**:

- Date: 26 Feb 2025
- Job Location: Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Strategic Employment Support
- Job Location: Adult Education Service
- Salary: £32,115 - £35,235 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Fixed Term
- Duration: Over Two years
- Closing Date: 09/03/2025
- Job Requisition Number: 10963
- This post is open to job share

**About the team and the role**

Gloucestershire Employment and Skills Hub has been created to provide a central source of information and support for residents and businesses. The aim is to help residents access learning and work opportunities, as well help employers get the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles. We are a team of dedicated professionals who thrive on helping people to achieve their learning and employment aspirations.

As a Team Leader you will support a team of Employment Specialists to provide advice, guidance and 1:1 support for people with disabilities and/or health issues who require support to move into employment. You will also manage a small caseload of individuals.

**About You**

You will have experience of managing a team including performance management and a focus on achieving outcomes. Your communication skills will provide you with the ability to develop a range of close links with partnerships; including other GCC teams, welfare to work providers and employers; with the aim of increasing skills base, knowledge and the opportunities available.

Experience of working with a fidelity model eg: supported employment or Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is desirable but not essential as full training will be given.

You must be customer focussed and ideally have knowledge of employment policies, procedures and welfare services; including the ability to develop your understanding of local labour-market demographics; enabling you to work with local employers to match their needs to the abilities of individuals.

You must hold a full UK driving licence as you will be required to travel around the county.

We offer a supportive, well-established team environment and regular ongoing training and supervision.

**About Us**
- 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
- Membership of a Local Government Pension Scheme
- Discounts at a number of major supermarket chains and high street retailers
- Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision and informal support
- Access to mandatory training
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network

**How to apply**

Closing date: Sunday 9th March

**Additional Information**

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:

- Team Leader-Role Profile

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.