Job Title: Employment Advisor

Location: Salford

Salary: £27,000

Role Overview:

The ideal candidate will manage a caseload of around 24 clients who are motivated to start/return to work. You will work on a program that supports adults with a physical or mental health disabilities who are out of work to find and sustain employment, providing person-centred advice and guidance to clients, whilst building positive relationships with local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivering a person-centred approach and overcoming their work, skills health, and personal circumstances barriers to ultimately support participants into sustainable work.
• Attend weekly team meetings, conducting regular visits, effective monitoring, and in-work support to clients and employers to help sustain employment.
• Liaising with local employers to negotiate job opportunities that meet everyone’s strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences.
• Develop effective working relationships with a range of external agencies that can help individuals to achieve their employment goals.
• Support with their job search, CV production, application forms, interview techniques, and career development.

• Source job opportunities for clients through tailored job searches and regular contact with local employers to explore hidden as well as advertised employment opportunities.
• Establish positive and integrated relationships with Primary Care teams, employers, and other service providers.

Essential/Desirable Skills:

• An understanding of working with disabled people, or a similar client group within health, social services, or the voluntary sector is desirable.
• High-level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions.
• Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of job outcomes and sustained outcomes.
• Drive, passion, and commitment.
• Full driving license with access to own vehicle is desirable.
• Strong communication skills and ability to build rapport with employers.

To apply please send your CV to (url removed) or contact Tiffany Bennett at Trigon Recruitment for a confidential/informal chat on (phone number removed).