Employment Advisor

The Growth Company's (GC) Employment team is excited to offer a new opportunity for an Employment Advisor. In this role, you will deliver a variety of guidance and training services to unemployed individuals, supporting their progression into employment. As part of the Restart Scheme, you will contribute to a government initiative that provides tailored support for up to 12 months, helping people secure jobs in their local area while overcoming any barriers that might be hindering their path to employment.

We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.

Salary: £28,400 starting salary, rising to £29,270 following successful probation, with potential OTE of £31,500+ based on performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and deliver advice, guidance, and training for unemployed individuals, liaising with agencies to support skill development and employment progression.
• Establish and deliver one-to-one and group activities, including assessments, inductions, and job search sessions.
• Provide one-to-one interventions at induction and assessment, identifying individual barriers and steps to success.
• Plan and deliver interventions for each customer, including CV production, better off calculations, job search support and mock interviews.
• Assist customers in meeting their needs and planning their actions.
• Facilitate group learning to improve employability.
• Providing in-work support to help customers sustain in work.
• Report any safeguarding concerns.

About You

• Ideally working in guidance, advice or recruitment environments.
• Previous experience working with vulnerable customer groups.
• Working to targets with excellent knowledge of the local labour market, methods of recruitment and awareness of growth industries.
• Good knowledge of welfare to work and the customer base.
• Knowledge of guidance and national standards.
• Rapport building skills, professional and articulate.

Skills Required

• Must have previous experience working within sales, customer service, welfare to work industry.
• The ability to work under pressure in a high-performance environment.
• Well-developed IT skills, including MI systems, spreadsheets and diary management, email, data security.
• Work to Key performance indicators and challenging targets.
• Ability to network and promote the organisation.