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Reed Specialist Recruitment are a leading recruitment agency working with colleges, prisons, universities, and training providers across the UK. We are always looking for talented/aspiring employment support staff to join a team and to help deliver high-quality employability.
Employment Advisor
Manchester
Permanent, Full Time
Up to £27,000
Reed are delighted to work with this social enterprise who have an exciting new opportunity for an Employment Advisor to deliver a range of guidance and training services for unemployed people, contribute to individuals' progression into employment, training and education.
The Employment Advisor will actively engage with individual participants with a mental health condition, ensuring that through the delivery of a multi-channel, multi-agency, and multi-place service delivery model, the participant is enabled and empowered to successfully complete their personal journey into, and progression within, the working environment. They will deliver the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach (for which training will be given); providing person-centred advice and guidance to clients, whilst building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.
Responsibilities
- To manage a caseload of clients who are motivated to start/return to work.
- To provide services to customers that are employed, but are struggling to retain their employment due to their mental health.
- Meet and support clients to understand their key skills, aspirations, and goals by completing a Vocational Profile and producing an Action Plan to help them obtain and sustain competitive employment. This includes support with their job search, CV production, application forms, interview techniques, and career development.
Requirements
- Working with and placing individual customers into suitable and sustained employment.
- Knowledge in relation to the issues affecting individuals with mental health and other barriers to progressing to employment and sustained employment.
- Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of job outcomes and sustained outcomes.
Benefits of working for Reed Further Education/our client:
- Professional Development
- Exclusive representation to leading FE colleges, prisons, and training providers in the area
- A specialist further education consultant who will search for jobs on your behalf
- A Health Cash Plan and Reed Discount Club
- Entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay, Parental Leave and Antenatal/Pre-Adoption Appointment Payment
- Access to Training and Development - Reed Assessment Centre - Reed Learning.
- Great referral bonus'
- Access to roles throughout the UK and online/remote learning
To apply for this role, please send us your updated CV by clicking 'Apply Now'. Your application should demonstrate your passion for employment l support and your commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of potentially vulnerable adults.
Not looking for support roles? We are also registering tutors, assessors and technicians through to other FE positions including HR, finance, facilities, administrators. We also have a specialist team of interim and senior management consultants with over 20 years' experience in the sector.