Employment Advisor - WHP Contracts

The role of an Employment Adviser requires a tenacious, highly organised, motivating, and innovative individual, able to work in a fast-paced target driven environment to support people with multiple barriers to move into sustainable employment., Supporting a caseload of participants, to produce a vocational profile and an effective action plan, offering advice and direction to enable participants to access the support they need. Delivering within an "Employment First" model you will be engaging with employers to support job matching, job carving, and reasonable adjustments. The Employment Advisor works with both the employer and participants during in-work support until a job outcome has been reached.

5 GCSEs (A-C) or equivalent qualifications

Demonstrable evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Strong track record of successfully working to targets and KPIs

Experience in successfully managing and progressing clients or customers meet agreed goals and ambitions

Experience of working with external stakeholders in providing exceptional customer progression routes, working with employers, local authorities, health services or voluntary sector organisations

Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation."

At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.

For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.

As an employee of Shaw Trust as well as positively impacting people's lives, you will have access to the following benefits:

25 days annual leave per year (plus bank holidays), with incremental increases post 3 years' service up to 28 days, and the option to purchase additional holiday

2 days paid volunteering leave each year

An enhanced pension scheme after 6 months

Life Assurance at 3 times your annual salary rate

Access to a suite of learning and development opportunities including paid for apprenticeship and masters' levels qualifications, and management development programmes

Opportunities to connect with our employee diversity networks (LGBTQ+ Support Network, Racial Equality Network, Disability Equality Network, Women's Network)

Health and Wellbeing initiatives including internal support, employee assistance programme and health cash plan

Our Strategy

To find out more about Shaw Trusts aims in our 2030 Strategic Directive available here: https://www.shawtrust.org.uk/content/uploads/2020/09/Vision-2030-Strategic-Directive-5-9.pdf

Join a diverse and inclusive organisation

Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.

In addition;

We are proud to be certified as an employer who meets the National Equality Standard, the accepted standard for inclusiveness in business across the UK.

We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government's Access to Work scheme.

Living our values, we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation.