Daily Duties
- Maintain a caseload of clients offering one to one support to help clients find, remain, or retain employment.
- Provide one to one advice & guidance where an initial assessment and an action plan identifying clients aspirations and barriers are identified.
- Coach and mentor clients and offer a range of employment support interventions that will support them to find, remain or return to work. This would involve developing CVs, supporting with job search and interviews.
- Work closely with local employment support agencies such as the job centre, recruitment consultancies, training, and work placement providers to offer suitable opportunities.
- Work closely with employers to support clients to remain in their jobs by negotiating reasonable adjustments at the workplace.
- Provide 1-2-1 support to clients to enable them to return to work after absence or other reasons.
- Work closely with local employment law professionals and trade unions to offer clients and their employers with information about their employment rights and responsibilities.
- Identify and maintain good working relationship with employers and prospective partners
- Identify and maintain good working relationship with employers and prospective partners.
- Work closely with local agencies to identify appropriate job vacancies.
- Advocate on behalf of the client with prospective employers, aiming to identify work solutions that will overcome or minimise difficulties within the workplace.
- Signpost the client, where necessary, to other agencies who will be able to provide advice on benefits or support that the client may be entitled to
- Where appropriate, work with other agencies the client is already being supported by, to deliver a more effective support service.