Employment Broker
Staffordshire County Council
Employment Broker
£41418
Staffordshire County Council, Broadeye, Stafford
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 3 Sep | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 2389125af6504d36b3bf4e8e25e75a62
Full Job Description
- Support Residents: Provide advice and guidance to residents with specialist and complex needs, ensuring a comprehensive end-to-end recruitment and in-work support service.
- Assist Businesses: Match job seekers to business requirements, supporting their recruitment needs.
- Lead a Team: Manage a team of Employment Brokers, ensuring they proactively support residents and businesses with a range of opportunities.
- Develop and deliver new employability projects, policies, and procedures.
- Line manage a team of Employment Brokers to ensure effective service delivery.
- Manage a caseload of job seekers with specialist and complex needs, helping them achieve sustainable employment.
- Establish relationships with employers to support their recruitment needs and encourage them to consider candidates with complex needs.
- Monitor and analyse KPIs to ensure team objectives are met.
- Promote SJC and its programmes through internal and external relationships and develop a communications strategy.
Experience of providing excellent customer service to job seekers, especially those facing barriers to employment, with empathy and an understanding of various job seeker cohorts. - An understanding of how to support candidates with additional needs into sustainable employment and how to encourage businesses to support these candidates.
- Employer engagement experience.
- Experience in developing and delivering new services and projects within employability.
- Experience working with external partners, organisations, and providers supporting employability programmes, including government incentives.
- Line management and training experience, with a track record of setting and achieving targets and objectives.
- Customer-focused, with strong communication skills to engage effectively with employers, partners, and colleagues.
These roles are fixed term for 2 years.
Main Responsibilities
You will:
If you're ready to make a real impact and help shape the future of employment services in Staffordshire, apply today!
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire