Employment Support Officer

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Job description

Salary: £34,739 to £40,859 per annum

Hours: 36 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract/Secondment - ending June 2023

Are you passionate about providing people with support, advice and guidance to assist them into employment?

In order to respond to the ESF funded Love London Working Employment Support programme and exciting opportunity has arisen with Clarion Futures for an exceptional Employment Support Officer to join our team.

As a key member of our team working out of our Islington office, you'll deliver high quality advice and guidance to ensure our customers have the right skills to enter employment, as well as helping them to identify the issues facing them so they can make sound decisions concerning their future.

You'll enjoy understanding your customers' needs and developing individual action plans with them, setting unambiguous and achievable goals in order to support them into training.

We'll look to you to support your customers by providing a range of interventions including employability, confidence and motivation workshops, and job clubs. You will also be required to provide job search advice and access to further employment support.

You'll have a natural ability to build and maintain trust and be able to demonstrate an organised and methodical approach in recording and monitoring outputs against agreed targets. You'll be expected to have, or be working towards, a relevant Advice and Guidance qualification.

Your duties will include:

• Providing ongoing support to residents who secure work through regular in-work support interventions.
• Using a variety of techniques to diagnose customers' need for support, referring to specialists where necessary to assist in tackling any barriers and achieving their personal goals.
• Providing in-work support to all customers who have recently gained employment.

This is a fantastic opportunity to utilise your extensive skills and experience to really make a difference for peoples' lives.

Closing Date: 3rd December at midnight

For further details on this vacancy please click 'apply'.

Applicants must be able to regularly travel within the area.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Criminal Records Check.