Employment Advisor

Aptitude Recruitment work with employers of choice across the skills and employability sector. We are currently supporting a leading employability skills expert based in Blackpool who are adding 2 Employment Adviser’s to their team.

About The Role

This role is extremely rewarding role and you will have a huge impact in your local community. As an Employability Adviser you will proactively manage a caseload of participants by providing a tailored employment support service to individuals to address barriers to gaining new employment with personalised support for individuals to achieve and sustain work, including supported job searching, re-training for a different sector and restoring self-confidence for work.

This is done by:

• Providing high quality 1:1 diagnostic career information and advice work
• Providing intensive support to participants, motivating and encouraging candidates to overcome any personal barriers to employment and building confidence
• Working on a 1:1 basis developing comprehensive action plans with individual customers
• Supporting participants to identify and develop transferable skills and support them in the use of appropriate online resources
• Planning and delivering group sessions to meet the needs of customers as required
• Maintaining an awareness and understanding of local labour market and building and maintaining external relationships to help support participants into suitable employment
• Completing all relevant documentation to the required standard and within required timescales
• Proactively managing own caseload, following up with customers to ensure advice given has made a difference.
• Achieving all contractual targets
  
  

This post is permanent. The hours of work for this position are 37 per week.

About you:

Whilst we would be delighted to hear from you if you have previous experience of working in the employability sector, or if you have a level 4 Careers Information Advice and Guidance qualification, we are also interested to hear from people who have worked in other sectors where you’ve relished the opportunity to achieve a personal target whilst excelling at providing outstanding customer service, as training can be provided for the right candidate. You could have experience working in sectors such as sales, hospitality, retail, travel, education, recruitment or training.

You will be able to demonstrate the following:

• A good standard of literacy and numeracy (GCSE grade 4 / C or equivalent);
• An appreciation of the benefits and an ability of using digital tools to support participants;
• The ability to identify, establish and maintain effective working partnerships for the benefit of customers;
• The ability to keep accurate and up to date records with a good attention to detail. This includes data entry on electronic systems;
• Strong communication skills and the ability to respond to demanding pressures and to meet deadlines;
• An ability to work on own initiative and a proactive approach to problem solving
  
  

If this feels like the right role for you, please apply online and one of the Aptitude Recruitment team will be in touch