Employment Advisor - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Shaw Trust

Description

"Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation."

Purpose

The role of an Employment Adviser requires a tenacious, highly organised, motivating, and innovative individual, able to work in a fast-paced target driven environment to support people with multiple barriers to move into sustainable employment.

Supporting a caseload of participants, to produce a vocational profile and an effective action plan, offering advice and direction to enable participants to access the support they need. Delivering within an 'Employment First' model you will be engaging with employers to support job matching, job carving, and reasonable adjustments. The Employment Advisor works with both the employer and participants during in-work support until a job outcome has been reached.

Essential:

You will have:

5 GCSEs (A-C) or equivalent qualifications
Strong track record of successfully working to targets and KPIs
Experience in successfully managing and progressing clients or customers
meet agreed goals and ambitions
Experience of working with external stakeholders in providing exceptional
customer progression routes, working with employers, local authorities,
health services or voluntary sector organisations
Excellent IT skills, including familiarity with Microsoft Office software and previous experience of working with databases

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Location:

Birmingham, regular travel required

Employee Benefits

As an employee of Shaw Trust as well as positively impacting people's lives, you will have access to the following benefits:

25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years' service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday
2 days paid volunteering leave each year
An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months
Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate
Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters' levels qualifications, and management development programmes
Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Women's Network)
Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan