Employment Advisor - London, United Kingdom - London Borough of Bexley

London Borough of Bexley

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Vacancy Description

Title:

Employment Advisor (Health)

Service Area/School:

Place
Housing and Strategic Planning

About Us:

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.
Bexley Business & Employment is based at Atrium Court in Erith and we have been providing support for unemployed/underemployed Bexley residents for more than 20 years. We offer a menu of support from which participants can pick including individually tailored advice and guidance around job search and employment, support to gain employability skills, computerised job search facilities and access to local vacancies.

About the Role:

As a health qualified employment advisor on the Work & Health programme you will work with adult job seekers who are preparing to move into employment, helping them to identify and address barriers that make this difficult by providing exemplary case management, including support, advice, advocacy and signposting to relevant support services. You will already have experience of working in a health setting eg as a mental health nurse/occupational therapist/mental health social worker and will have the relevant qualifications for that role.
You will develop and maintain an action plan with each job seeker, agreeing a range of activities, to enable and inspire individuals to achieve sustained employment and nonemployment progression measures, including managing health conditions, improving wellbeing, selfconfidence and levels of independence.
You will work in partnership with a wide variety of local agencies and colleagues within the team to provide the best support to individual
Please refer to the Job Description attached for more information.
We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.
Are you highly organised with a passion for helping people? Do you have a background and relevant qualification in mental or physical health and understand how health barriers can impact those seeking employment? Do you think you have the enthusiasm and drive to help those who face challenging barriers that make getting and keeping a job difficult? Can you work to targets and deadlines? If so, you could be the person we are looking for
For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached.
This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is considered by the authority to be a customerfacing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.
Anticipated Interview Date: TBC
Please note that the system has a onehour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised and have your CV and/or Supporting statement ready to upload.
Additional Information
This role is available as a development opportunity through secondment for the Council's existing employees. The Council's Secondment Scheme can be found here. If this option is of interest, please contact the recruiting manager.

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