Employability Advisor

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Employability Advisor
To provide end to end structured support and guidance to all participants on our Employability Skills programme, ensuring the attainment of positive sustained outcomes by providing a variety of interventions throughout their journey on provision.
Salary Banding: £24,500
Base: Newport
Contract type: Full time, Permanent
Hours of work: Monday to Friday 9:00am to 4:30pm
What are the core responsibilities of this role?
Accountable for participant Induction including, meeting, and greeting all participants, completing, and checking all relevant documentation, delivering the structured induction session, and making sure all participants have a clear understanding of provision.
Responsible for owning the participants Employment Action Plan (EAP), working in partnership with colleagues to discuss & digitally document the participant’s progression e.g., working with the Employability Trainer to review their latest employability skills progress.
Responsible for working with participants and colleagues to develop an effective personalised programme of interventions for individual participants.
Accountable for directly delivering employability support, including job search guidance, soft skills development, motivational discussions, and other appropriate support.
Responsible for liaising with the Employer Engagement team to source sustainable employment and placement opportunities for participants. Supporting a seamless transition to placement or directly to sustainable employment.
Responsible for achieving contractual targets for attendance, sustained job outcome and participant satisfaction.
Accountable for supporting participants to gain a full understanding of opportunities when they become available, supporting with understanding the job description, interview criteria, location of Interview and interview techniques.
Actively takes part in a “Monthly Caseload Review” session to discuss all participants with your Performance Manager.
Responsible for the re-engagement of participants who fail to attend provision by following re-engagement techniques or work with the Support Centre to contact the participant.
What skills and experience are we looking for from potential applicants?
Essential criteria
Experience of working with unemployed Adults
Experience of working within a targeted / performance driven environment
Desirable criteria
Learning Coach L4 Qualification or equivalent
Social Work experience / Qualification or equivalent
Counselling experience / qualification or equivalent
IAG Qualification level 3 as a minimum or working towards or equivalent.
This role is subject to a DBS check. The cost of the DBS check will be met by the company.
Itec operates as an equal opportunities employer and we welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions, or trade union membership.
Itec reserve the right to close this vacancy sooner if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Should you not hear from us 2 weeks after application, unfortunately you have been unsuccessful.

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