Employment Advisor

**The Growth Company’s (GC)** Employment team have an exciting new opportunity for a Restart Employment Advisor to delivery of a range of guidance and training services for unemployed people, contribute to individuals’ progression into employment, training, and education.

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.

Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health, and debt.

We work with employers on their recruitment and skills needs to help place people into high quality sustainable jobs.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Work as part of a team to co-ordinate and deliver advice, guidance and training interventions that meet the needs of unemployed individuals; operate referral and liaison procedures with other agencies as required (i.e. JCP, local referral partners, colleges, employers, training providers and recruitment agencies) to support peoples’ achievement of skills (including certification) and progression to employment, training, and education.
- Establish and deliver both one to one and group activities as part of customer interventions including initial assessments, inductions, job search sessions, failed to attend sessions with customers.
- Deliver one to one intervention at induction and assessment and subsequent follow up appointments by one to one or group sessions always ensuring.
- Create/ensure each customer has an up-to-date CV.
- Refer to internal and external agencies to progress the customer.
- Deliver further interventions with customer as required, assisting customers to decide on options for meeting their needs and provide support for customers in planning.
- Participate in other activities that support the work of the team and Growth Company, such as tender/bid writing, development of new products/services.

**About you**:

- Time management and strong organisation skills.
- Administration, strong accuracy, numeracy and literacy, strong integrity.
- Problem solving
- Warm, pleasant demeanour.
- Good rapport building skills.
- Good negotiator.
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Self-motivation and self-confidence.
- Negotiation, ability to challenge.

**Skills Required**:

- Must have previous experience working within sales, customer service, welfare to work industry.
- Experience Working to targets and Ability to work to Key performance indicators and challenging targets.
- Excellent knowledge of the local labour market, methods of recruitment and awareness of growth industries.
- Good knowledge of welfare to work and the customer base, training, education, and employment opportunities.
- Knowledge of guidance and national standards.
- The ability to work under pressure in a high-performance environment.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Flexible approach to work including willingness to travel, with occasional unsociable hours.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.

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

Pay: Up to £28,400.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 4164