Employment Adviser

East Midlands Chamber is a well-respected and award winning organisation that aims to enhance businesses and communities in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire through creating sustainable growth, new opportunities and greater prosperity. With more than 4,000 members, we have established a reputation as the leading independent business representation organisation in the East Midlands and voice of the region's economy.
Job title: Employment Adviser
Salary: £26,520 to £27,000 per annum
Based at: Glossop. Additional regular travel required across the High Peak, and occasionally throughout Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
Contract: Fixed term until 29 November 2024, full time (35 hours per week)
1. WHY THE POST EXISTS
Are you passionate about making a difference and helping others? Would you like to work in an environment that puts the customer (our participants) at the heart of everything we do?
As an Employment Adviser within the Employment Services department you will play a key role in delivering the Work & Health Programme, which aims to help people who have a health condition or disability, the long-term unemployed and other specified disadvantaged groups (Early Access Groups) find, enter and sustain work.
You will be a self-motivated and target-driven individual who has a track record of delivering excellent customer service and wants to help people to achieve their full potential.
2. THE KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
- To attract, register, support and progress programme participants.
- Use a variety of techniques to influence participants perception of working and therefore achieve sustainable employment, including; effective diagnosis, coaching and training on a one-to-one or group basis, action planning and health & wellbeing support.
- Deliver the programme both in fixed Chamber locations, co-location sites and community venues, to ensure our services are accessible to all.
- Manage own workload/diary and adhere to deadlines.
- Work to and achieve strict sales targets.
- Help participants identify barriers and achieve a better lifestyle for themselves by pushing and promoting the benefits of being in paid work.
3. APPLICANTS WILL POSSESS
- A can-do, upbeat and energetic attitude.
- Be self-motivated and looking for a unique challenge.
- Are confident delivering employability support both one-to-one and in group settings.
- Have excellent local knowledge of support services and employment opportunities.
- Able to show compassion and build rapport with participants.
- Able to motivate participants and support them to achieve their goals.
- Has experience of working towards challenging targets.
- Thrives on challenging targets.
- Passionate about helping people to achieve their potential.
- Be dependable, reliable, trustworthy and capable of exercising diplomacy.
- Willing and able to travel between delivery sites.
4. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN RETURN
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays each year (pro rata for part time).
- 8% non-contributory pension scheme.
- Wellbeing support including access to Westfield Health plan, Mental Health First Aiders, self help toolkits, discounts and more.
- Your Birthday off plus an extra day of leave after 5 and 10 years' service.
- Life assurance (death in service support scheme) for your beneficiaries.
- Dress for the day policy and agile working practices (role dependent).
- 2 CSR days to take per year (volunteering activity).
- Access to tax-free childcare and Bike2Work schemes.
- Special leave for bereavement, compassionate leave & dependent related time off.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Flexibility to take unpaid leave, paid study leave & special leave for territorial army.
- Recognition and engagement schemes including our Our Stars.
- Tax free 45p per business mile for cars (up to 10,000 miles per year).
5. HOW TO APPLY
If you have an enthusiastic approach to your work and feel you could make a significant contribution to our organisation, we would like to hear from you.
Please visit East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire) job vacancies website. Unfortunately we cannot accept applications from this platform for compliance purposes.
The closing date for applications is ongoing (we close ongoing adverts once sufficient applications are received).
6. COMPANY STATEMENT
East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire) is an equal opportunities employer and Disability Confident Leader. All suitably qualified individuals are encouraged to apply for vacancies, and they will be considered solely based on merit regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
The business is dedicated to retaining talent and therefore it may decide to prioritise and support internal applicants during recruitment exercises. Applicants are required to disclose any unspent convictions or cautions and company director disqualifications in their covering letter. Any reasonable adjustments needed to support applicants should be submitted to recruitment@emc-dnl.co.uk

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