New Entrant Employer Support Advisor - Cheadle, United Kingdom - CITB

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New Entrant Employer Support Advisor

Location - Staffordshire and surrounding areas within 90 minutes of the location (mobile role with National travel required).

Grade D - £36,803 - £47,492

Role Purpose:


Responsibility for:
Delivering an enhanced support service to employers already employing or considering employing new entrants, including apprentices.
Increasing the number of employers recruiting new entrants including apprentices.
Supporting employers to attract, recruit and retain new entrants including apprentices.
Supporting the development of the training infrastructure for new entrants.


Recruit New Entrants

  • Increasing the number of new entrants employed to train in construction trades and professions
  • Increasing the diversity of applicants for new entrant training positions in construction trades and professions.
  • Managing and instigating employer engagement specifically aligned with new recruitment
  • Promoting the use of Go Construct, Go Construct STEM Ambassadors and the Talent View Construction portal to employers, training providers, Colleges and to influencers of potential applicants.
  • Ensuring that employers can deliver the scope of the selected apprenticeship / training programme
  • Work with employers to ensure they understand their responsibilities in the delivery of the apprenticeship including the role of the workplace mentor, delivering upskilling sessions where required.
  • Support employers with the setup of apprenticeship digital accounts
  • Support employers to access Travel to Train funding.

Retain New Entrants

  • Engage employers with planning, managing, and driving the progress of learners in line with the expectations of training programmes.
  • Link Employers with local provision
  • Facilitate selfsupporting local forums for employers, training providers and other stakeholders to develop the validity and currency of training provision.
  • Provide signposting and links to local and regional organisations who support employers with the pastoral needs of learners.
  • Work closely with Local Networks, Specialist Sector Networks and Training Groups to support the development of the right training infrastructure in the region.
  • Conduct regular checkin visits to employers with apprentices
  • Offer progression signposting for employers with New Entrants on completion of programmes.

Knowledge & Experience

  • Experience or knowledge of publicly funded training contracts, particularly Apprenticeships and Traineeships
  • Experience and knowledge of the Ofsted CIF and inspection requirements
  • Excellent understanding of the Apprenticeship Service from the employer perspective
  • Thorough knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding
  • Experience of providing advice and signposting to employers
  • Thorough knowledge of apprenticeship standards and EPA process for a wide range of apprenticeship standards

Skills

  • Decision making
  • Influencing
  • Planning & scheduling own workload
  • Time management
  • Working to challenging deadlines
  • Highly customer focused
  • Proactive
  • Mobile working
  • Excellent Communication skills
  • Willingness to learn and adapt
  • Ability to selfmanage and motivate
  • Excellent and accurate IT skills
  • Mentoring and Coaching

Essential

  • Presentation skills and experience in delivering briefing / training sessions (essential).
  • Demonstrable experience in influencing key stakeholders to deliver outcomes
  • Welldeveloped communication and interpersonal skills with ability to Influence, challenge, negotiate and to manage conflict and difficult situations. (essential)
  • Understand and be able to use CRM systems and Information management Systems (essential)
  • MS office skills packages, using technology such as laptops and tablets. (essential)
  • Knowledge and experience of learner safeguarding and wellbeing (essential)
  • Experience in being responsible for own workload, diary management and working independently to tight schedules (essential)
  • Assessment, training or teaching qualification or a willingness to undertake a qualification (Teaching, training & assessing learning L3)
  • Educated to A Level standard or equivalent (equivalent being equivalent qualification level or demonstrable practical experience).

Desirable

  • CEIAG qualification L4

Special Conditions/Other Requirements:


  • This role is a mobile role, with no office base and will involve significant regional travel, on a daily basis.
  • Full UK Driving Licence is essential
  • This role requires a flexible approach to working patterns and may involve occasional overnight stays and some national travel
  • This role requires an enhanced DBS/PVG for child workforce and children's barred list check

Benefits:


  • 33 days holiday per year (Including bank holidays)
  • Flexible benefits including childcare vouchers, cycle to work and insurance
  • Pension scheme
  • Employee discounts
  • Long service awards
  • CITB recognition scheme
  • Employee assistance programme
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