Employment Adviser (Barnstaple)

Seetec • Barnstaple, Devo, UN • 1w ago

Job Role

Are you looking for a rewarding role that will allow you to utilise your current skills to influence, support and encourages 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 principle 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 encourages 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.

Interested? There’s an easy to apply route below to upload your CV!

If you need any further information, talk to our experienced Internal Recruitment Team on 01702 595200.

Seetec Group is an employee-owned organisation and we continually pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the incredible work we do throughout UK and Ireland, and internally with our employee owners. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and each decision we make.

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Location: This is an office-based role, working in Barnstaple
Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 8.30 am to 5pm, Friday 8.30 am to 4.30pm
Closing Date: 14 March 2025

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

For full job description follow the link: Employment Advisor

Skills and Experience

Essential

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

Additional Information

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 support 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.