Job Description:

Job information Employment Advisor (RESTART) from the Company Prospect Training Services, this latest Employment Advisor (RESTART) job vacancy is located in the city Cheltenham located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Employment field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

RESTART ROLE - Employment Advisor

Prospect Training Services (PTS) is one of the region's leading providers who support young people and adults who are looking to either re-join or engage with the employment market for the first time.

This role will form part of the RESTART Programme which provides intensive and tailored support to unemployed people in England and Wales and help them find work.

We are currently seeking talented individuals to join our team of Employment Advisors working across Gloucestershire. The role will involve supporting a caseload of around 65 clients who have recently progressed into work but struggled to sustain the employment. As their Employment advisor you will spend time with the clients on a 121 basis to identify why they struggled to sustain employment and work with them to address these barriers and progress back into work.

If you have excellent customer service skills, are target driven as well as a motivational adviser who can build positive relationships, guide, inspire, and encourage individuals to find suitable employment then please get in touch. You will have a high level of initiative and motivation with the ability to seek out solutions to problems, and be able to work under pressure, without day-to-day supervision.

We are looking for individuals from a sales, recruitment, retail, employment/careers or who have an advising and guidance background or previous experience within employability. Is this you? If so, we would love to hear from you.

You will relish the opportunity and challenge of working towards robust contractual targets and KPIS for your role on this performance driven contract.

The RESTART scheme is open to people who have been out of work for more than 6-months and will provide them with regular intensive support in finding work.

Be proud to be part of the recovery.

Key Responsibilities

• Meet, and strive to exceed, personal performance targets (Key Performance Indicators).
• Progressively manage a caseload of referred customers using a variety of appropriate strategies to help them overcome barriers to gaining employment.

· Deliver a positive experience to new customers, ensuring they engage with you and the programme and maintain regular contact as their journey develops, ensuring you are on hand to help with issues and questions as they arise.

• Facilitate a range of assessments, using a suite of tools, to fully understand a customer's personal circumstances, ambitions and goals and co-produce personalised tailored Action Plans featuring SMART targeting to enable positive and timely progression.
• Provide tailored support in all aspects of job-search and interview preparation to ensure that customers are matched to the right job that enables them to sustain employment.
• Where required, provide appropriate training/guidance to customers to help them master digital technologies, for them to engage in guided self-service learning materials and online job vacancies.
• Fully understand the local labour market, to source suitable job opportunities.

Skills and Experience

Essential :

• A good working knowledge of the local labour market in the specified geographical locations (Gloucestershire)
• Previous experience working in the recruitment sector.
• Experience of working in a target driven environment.
• Full driving license and own transport to enable deployment across a specified geographical area (region), when required.
• GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths at Grade C or above
• Experience of providing employment support or guidance to others.
• Fully IT literate in using a range of Microsoft Office programmes to include 365 products and modern digital technologies, i.e. Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the employability industry
• Experience of working with people in the provision of ‘information, advice & guidance

Additional Information

· Salary: Up to £27,000 per annum

· Contract - Fixed term contract (2 years with potential to extend pending contract funding). Offers of employment subject to funding being secured for this contract, which is anticipated to commence from June 2024, pending successful contract award.

· Location: Cheltenham

· Benefits: 23 days annual leave + bank holidays, health cash plan on successful completion of probationary period

· Hours: 37.5 hrs per week - 8:45am - 16:45pm Monday- Friday (Full Time)

· Interviews - Interviews will be undertaken within a week of closing date, if possible.

· Unsuccessful candidates will not be contacted, unfortunately due to the volumes of applicants.

Please apply to our HR Team mailbox in line with the above deadline to hradmin@trainandrecruit.com

PTS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.

Dependent on the role applying to you may be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS/DS) check. PTS support the recruitment of ex- offenders and will not discriminate in anyway.

PTS is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contractContract length: 24 months

Pay: Up to £27,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Free or subsidised travel
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Gloucester, Gloucestershire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Are you fully IT literate in using a range of Microsoft Office programmes to include 365 products and modern digital technologies, i.e. Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business?

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (required)

Experience:

• Recruiting: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 04/06/2024Reference ID: Restart 2.0

Keywords : Cheltenham jobs

Closed Date : 2024-10-23