Employment Adviser (Bury St Edmunds)

Are you looking for a rewarding role that will allow you to utilise your current skills to influence, support and encourage others to build a future? Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference to people's lives? If so, then this might be the position for you.

We're currently recruiting for an Employment Adviser to join our amazing team. You will provide advice and support to guide and encourage participants to overcome barriers to employment and achieve realistic job goals. You'll manage a caseload of participants, managing their journey to employment, be their coach and mentor and be the principal highly trusted contact to build strong positive relationships, guide, motivate, challenge, encourage and help customers obtain sustainable employment.

Our ideal candidate will have excellent customer service skills, be target driven as well as a motivational adviser. You'll have a high level of initiative and motivation with the ability to seek out solutions to problems, and be able to work under pressure, without day to day supervision. However, we aren't always looking for someone who ticks every single box; we're looking for someone who can provide a first class customer service, driven by our overarching aim to empower lives and improve communities.

This is a rewarding role that will allow you to utilise your current skills to influence, support and encourage others to build a future and will also allow us to become better with your unique experiences. As an organisation, we deliver a range of Employability & Health contracts which support unemployed people back to work. This job role forms part of our Restart Scheme.

In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we're offering a competitive salary range of £26,500 to £29,545 per annum (dependent on experience) with these great additional benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy additional days)
• 2 Volunteer Days
• Pension - 5% Employee 5% Employer
• Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
• Annual Pay Review
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Free access to BenefitHub - an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, cycle to work scheme and additional voluntary benefits

There's also the opportunity to progress your career within the Seetec Group.

Location: This is an office-based role, working in Bury St Edmunds.

Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 8.30 am to 5pm, Friday 8.30 am to 4.30pm.

Key Responsibilities:

• Excellent people person with very competent communication skills.
• You'll also organise and conduct job-search.
• Identify any potential barriers to employment.
• Ensuring all paper-based employability tools such as covering letters, CV's, speculative letters are in place.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• A good working knowledge of the local labour market in the specified geographical locations.
• Basic knowledge of self-employment.
• Fully IT literate in using a range of Microsoft Office programmes.
• Experience of working in a target driven environment.
• Experience of delivering services to meet contractual and quality standards.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of the employability industry.
• Knowledge of the recruitment industry.
• Experience of working with people in the provision of information, advice & guidance.
• Full driving licence.

Seetec Pluss is one of the UK's leading providers of employability and health services, supporting thousands of people to move into employment each year. Committed to empowering people to better their lives, Seetec Pluss supports individuals from all walks of life to enter and progress in the world of work. We create and source jobs and opportunities, and by focusing on people's strengths we raise aspirations and help them overcome their barriers to work and develop the skills that employers are looking for. Together, we open up a world of opportunity to individuals and organisations, supporting them with their aspirations today so they can thrive in the future.

As an organisation, we are recruiting for a number of Employability contracts to support the unemployed back to work. This role will play a key part in contributing to the UK's economic recovery, 'Restart Scheme' which is a cornerstone of the government's 'Plan for Jobs' strategy and the expansion of the existing Work and Health programme (WHP).

Seetec Pluss is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.

Dependent on the role applying to you may be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS/DS) check. Seetec supports the recruitment of ex-offenders and will not discriminate in any way. Our full policy statement of Ex-Offenders can be found on our website under About us.

Seetec Pluss is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.