Employment Advisor – Maidstone
Sector: Employability and Welfare to Work
Salary: £24,000 - £27,000
Location: Maidstone
Contact: Vicky Higgins
Email:
vicky@coynerecruitment.co.uk
Phone:
07871 612425
Job ref: EA Maidstone
Published: 24th October 2024
Expiry date: 23rd November 2024
Employment Advisor - Maidstone
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Meeting with jobseekers, identifying any challenges and barriers with finding employment.
- Addressing a variety of barriers to employment with empathy and compassion.
- Building long lasting relationships with clients to ensure a professional and holistic approach.
- Identifying clients’ needs and requirements through detailed diagnostics.
- Putting together SMART weekly action plans to ensure the client is moving closer to employment.
- Be able to motivate clients whilst ensuring an engaging working environment.
- Networking with local employers to sell your clients skills and abilities, whilst utilising the Employer Engagement team.
- Offering information, advice and guidance relating to the clients circumstances.
- Completing Better Off Calculations and benefit advice.
- Booking jobseekers to any relevant training courses including customer service, security, hospitality, personal development, IT literacy and many others.
- Supporting jobseekers with CV writing and job application process.
- Liaising with employers to identify any employment opportunities for the jobseekers.
- Outreach work – promoting products and services within the local community.
- Able to work in a fast-paced working environment and be able to excel at meeting strict targets and KPI’s.
- Able to prioritise workload and tasks ensuring high efficiency and productivity
Key Skills:
- The ability to work under pressure in a high-performance environment.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Well-developed IT skills, including MI systems, spreadsheets and diary management, email, data security.
- Self-motivation and self confidence
- Negotiation, ability to challenge.
- Ability to work to Key performance indicators and challenging targets
- Administration, strong accuracy, numeracy and literacy, strong integrity
- Ability to network and promote the organisation.
- Time management and strong organisation skills
Apply here: If this role is of interest to you, please express your interest by completing the form and uploading your CV.