Employer Engagement Officer - Wolverhampton, United Kingdom - St Giles Trust

Description

HMP Oakwood + regular travel across The Midlands

Ref: EEA-241

Are you an empathetic and engaging individual with substantial experience of successfully supporting people into sustainable employment? Do you have experience of providing a person-led support service that responds to individual's employment needs, including key elements like assessment, IAG, action planning, engagement and motivation and personal development?

If so, St Giles Trust is looking for an Employer Engagement Officer to play a key role in an exciting new Future Skills Programme designed to support those nearing the end of their prison sentence to gain skills and knowledge and work towards securing employment upon their release.

About St Giles Trust

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About this key role

Your challenge will be to provide a high-level service to the HMP Oakwood Future Skills Programme and become integrated with local 3rd sector organisations and other organisations that accept the client group. You will also be part of a comprehensive Skills and Training service delivered across St Giles Trust that's mindful of, and promotes, the organisation's Vision, Mission, Values and strategic aims.

Day-to-day, we will look to you to maximise employer relationships whilst identifying and developing business opportunities with existing and new employers/clients. You will also be responsible for ensuring vacancy/employer opportunities are maximised and that the process for matching clients to employment opportunities is effective and meets the needs of both parties involved. Providing a comprehensive and sustainable employee engagement strategy will be an important aspect of the role too, as will conducting a skills gap analysis with employers to inform the programme's design. And, when it comes to empowering local employers to recruit and support participants through our lived experience toolkit, again, we will count on you.

What we are looking for

• Experience of working with socially excluded adults, managing a caseload, achieving individual set targets for employment outcomes and supporting colleagues to achieve overall project targets
  
• Substantial experience of working with organisations to increase employment
  
• A proven ability to work to high standards of evaluation processes, an understanding of current labour market trends and knowledge of employment rights and contract types
  
• Awareness of Matrix standards and the ability to implement quality assurance measures
  
• Knowledge of anti-discriminatory working practices and its implications within the working environment
  
• Strong IT skills, including proven experience of using Word, Excel and Outlook and the ability to work with case-management databases (i.e. Salesforce) on a day-to-day basis
  
  Successful candidates must undergo an Enhanced DBS check, on the basis that the post involves contact with vulnerable participants and colleagues.
  
  In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, season ticket loan and much more.
  
  Closing date: 18th April 2024.
  
  

  As an equity and inclusive employer, we welcome all applications, but we would particularly welcome applications from Global Majority People (Black, Asian, Brown, Dual Heritage), those living with a disability, those from a neurodiverse group, or have another protected characteristic. We value the positive impact and diversity that your lived experience can bring to our organisation.
  
  

  St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.
  
  

  As an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients. Successful applicants must therefore submit an Enhanced Adult Workforce DBS DBS Check. Prison vetting is also a requirement for the role.