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Employability Advisor
To provide end-to-end structured support and guidance to all participants in our Employability Skills programme, ensuring the attainment of positive, sustained outcomes by providing a variety of interventions throughout their journey of provision.
Salary Banding: £24,500
Base: Newport
Contract type: full-time, permanent
Hours of work: Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Core Responsibilities:
1. Accountable for participant induction includes 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 the provision.
2. Responsible for owning the participant's Employment Action Plan (EAP), working in partnership with colleagues to discuss and digitally document the participant’s progression, e.g., working with the Employability Trainer to review their latest employability skills progress.
3. Responsible for working with participants and colleagues to develop an effective personalised programme of interventions for individual participants.
4. Accountable for directly delivering employability support, including job search guidance, soft skills development, motivational discussions, and other appropriate support.
5. 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.
6. Responsible for achieving contractual targets for attendance, sustained job outcomes, and participant satisfaction.
7. 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.
8. Actively takes part in a “monthly caseload review” session to discuss all participants with your performance manager.
9. Responsible for the re-engagement of participants who fail to attend provision by following re-engagement techniques or working with the Support Centre to contact the participant.
Skills and Experience Required:
Essential Criteria:
1. Experience working with unemployed adults.
2. Experience working in a targeted or performance-driven environment.
Desirable Criteria:
1. Learning Coach L4 Qualification or Equivalent.
2. Social work experience, qualification, or equivalent.
3. Counselling experience, qualification, or equivalent.
4. IAG Qualification Level 3 as a minimum, working towards it, 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 opportunity 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 reserves 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.
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