Recovery Worker
Posted 2 weeks ago by Trigon Recruitment Ltd
Job Title: Employment Advisor
Location: Wigan
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).
- Type:
- Permanent
- Contract Length:
- N/A
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- Job Reference:
- 1083921
- Job ID:
- 221971041
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