At a Glance
- Tasks: Help individuals secure sustainable employment through coaching and support.
- Company: Join Standguide, an employee-owned organisation making a real difference.
- Benefits: Enjoy 33 days annual leave, health plans, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team committed to equality and community impact.
- Why this job: Empower others while building your skills in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: No prior experience needed; just a passion for helping people succeed.
The predicted salary is between 26780 - 28325 £ per year.
Salary: £26,780 per annum, rising to £28,325 after completion of a successful probation period
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full-time (37.5 hrs pw)
Standguide is an employee-owned organisation, which means our employees have a voice in the business and a shared interest in its long-term success. Alongside a rewarding role where you can make a genuine difference, we offer:
- 33 days paid annual leave, including bank holidays, increasing to 38 days after five full years’ service
- An additional paid day off for your birthday
- Company health plan following successful completion of probation
- Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling and wellbeing support
- Will-planning support and access to a secure digital vault
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Company sick pay, subject to eligibility
- A broad range of internal training and continuing professional development opportunities
- Access to employee-owner benefits, subject to eligibility and qualifying service
Make a difference through meaningful employment. The role involves attracting, registering, and guiding participants towards successful placements. Utilising diagnostic skills, individual and group coaching, and optimising available funding, you'll empower individuals to secure sustainable employment. You don’t need previous Employment Advisor experience, as full training will be provided. What matters most is your ability to build trust, work positively with people and employers, and help individuals recognise and achieve their potential.
About Standguide: For more than three decades, Standguide has supported individuals and employers across the UK. We provide employment, skills and support services that help people overcome barriers, develop their potential and move towards sustainable employment. As an employee-owned organisation, we’re committed to investing in our people, delivering high-quality services and creating positive outcomes for the communities we support.
What you’ll do as an Employment Advisor:
- Build and maintain relationships with the Job Centre Plus and other relevant Partners through regular telephone contact, visits, and newsletters as appropriate to ensure participants are aware of our services and to allay any concerns they may have with accessing or utilising our services
- Sign participants up to the programme following system and process guidance e.g., accurate and timely completion of documentation
- Explain our service offering (details of the programme) including ensuring the participant understands their rights and responsibilities (e.g., complaints & feedback process), whilst registering the participant in accordance with contractual obligations and eligibility criteria
- Identify, clarify, and manage the participant expectations of the process including data protection, confidentiality and ground rules of the programme and the relationship to achieve buy-in to the programme
- Develop and manage participant’s job goals using creative techniques and deep level questioning as necessary for the participants needs to assist with diagnosis and progression
- Engage and empower participants whilst delivering group training sessions, with the aim of progressing them to achieve sustainable employment.
Previous experience or training in the Individual Placement and Support approach would be an advantage, but it isn’t essential. Overseas equivalent qualifications will be considered. We welcome applications from people with relevant lived experience and recognise the valuable insight this can bring to the role.
Equality and accessibility: Standguide is an Equal Opportunities Employer and a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to equality of opportunity and value the diversity of our employees, applicants and customers. We’ll consider reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Please contact recruitment@standguide.co.uk if you need the advert or application information in another format or require an adjustment at any stage. All applicants will be assessed fairly against the published criteria for the role.
Pre-employment checks: Any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, confirmation of the applicant’s right to work in the UK and an Enhanced DBS check. Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from working with us. Any information disclosed will be considered fairly and individually, taking account of its relevance to the role and the circumstances involved.
For a copy of the full job description and person specification, please email recruitment@standguide.co.uk.
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