Restart Employment Advisor - Preston, United Kingdom - The Growth Company

The Growth Company

Verified Company

Preston, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
Preston

Company
The Growth Company

Contract type
Permanent/ Full
- time

Salary
Up to £28,420 per annum

Closing Date
10/09/2023

Ref No
3721

The Growth Company's (GC) Employment team are looking for a Restart Employment Advisor h to deliver a range of guidance and training services for unemployed people, and 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:

Meeting with jobseekers, identifying any challenges and barriers with finding employment.
Booking jobseekers to any relevant training courses including customer service, security, hospitality, personal development, IT literacy and many others.
Liaising with employers to identify any employment opportunities for the jobseekers.
Promoting the Growth Company within the local community.

Skills required:

Able to demonstrate coaching/mentoring experience and persuasion/influencing skills through previous work or social activities.
Experience of working in a customer facing environment for example Customer Services, Hospitality, Social Care, Customer Services, Sales, Retail.
Experience of working in a performance target driven environment.
Willingness to travel locally (e.g. to meet customers/employers).
Experience of exposure to various customer groups.
Previous experience of a working in a similar role in Welfare to Work or publicly funded services is desirable.

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.