Part-Time Employer Engagement Adviser

Status Employment are a Supported Employment Charity with 30 years of experience supporting people with health conditions, disabilities and complex needs to gain and retain work; we offer one-to-one support for people with or who have experienced Mental Health difficulties to gain and retain employment. We are an organisation that has a diverse team of individuals who pride themselves on professionalism, strong values, and hard work to make a real difference to people's lives; we are committed to maintaining that diversity through ongoing recruitment.

Your role will primarily involve working with new and existing employers to facilitate work placements for our supported internships. You will facilitate new opportunities for young people to gain work experience and maintain existing employer relationships leading to an increased number of paid work opportunities for our interns.

Purpose:

To work within the mission statement and values of Status Employment always ensuring respect for candidates’ rights and personal dignity.

To enable candidates to take full advantage of opportunities to gain and retain paid employment.

You will support our individual employment advisors and teams by engaging with local employers, promoting our services and programmes and generating employer opportunities for our participants.

To lead on the delivery of our organisational employer engagement strategy and role model best practice around employer engagement to individual workers and teams.

You will establish and maintain profitable working relationships with employers that will increase the work placement opportunities for our supported internship programmes contributing to an increase in the number of people who gain competitive employment.

Key duties include (not an exhaustive list)

• Promoting Status Employment to our key partners, stakeholders and Employers
• Building relationships with employers and other networks to create better opportunities for candidates.
• Finding and securing suitable employment for candidates
• Facilitating work placements for interns
• Conduct workplace assessments
• Conducting Job Analysis and employer support plans
• Contribute to individualised in-work Support Strategies for candidates
• Providing appropriate training and support for both employer and or candidates on such as workplace etiquette
• Engage with employers and the business community to promote inclusive recruitment and make positive introductions on behalf of our candidates.
• Facilitate reverse job fairs
• Maintain up-to-date and accurate records to evidence your employer engagement activities and our support.
• Deliver internal training, support and guidance to employment teams to increase the general level of and effectiveness of employer engagement activities taking place

Status Employment may undertake special projects.  You may be asked to assist with the development of such initiatives as required by the Senior Employment Consultant.

Undertake any reasonable duties as requested by the Chief Executive / Management Team

To work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends as required to meet the needs of the clients/service.

You will:

• Work with internal colleagues to identify suitable employers to approach and engage with
• Support Clients to devise a strategy to help them move forward with their employment goals.
• Develop an effective knowledge of the Equality Act 2010 and other relevant employment legislation.
• Have good IT skills - we use a database to capture data at every point of contact - and have knowledge of online platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams etc

Qualifications and training

• Educated to A level or equivalent experience - essential
• Willingness to complete further training and personal development - essential
• Trained in supported approach (or equivalent) - desirable
• Level 3 Diploma in Employability Services Sector Qualification - desirable
• QCF in Advice & Guidance (Level 3) - desirable

Experience

• Experience/understanding of working with people with disabilities and health support needs - essential
• Experience of engaging with employers and or stakeholders within the supported employment sector - essential
• Experience of facilitating group work activities - essential
• Experience of managing multiple tasks at any one time - essential
• Experience of working assertively to influence decision-makers - essential
• Experienced at working to and meeting targets - essential
• Experience of supporting people to obtain or keep work - desirable
• Experience of working with statutory organisations - desirable
• Own personal lived experience of recovery from/managing disability/long-term health difficulties – desirable
• Previous experience of working within a supported employment service - desirable
• Experience of conducting workplace assessments - desirable
• Following evidence-based practice - desirable

Knowledge

• An understanding of the employment needs, and challenges faced by people who experience disabilities and health difficulties - essential
• Developing a knowledge of a broad range of occupations and jobs - essential
• Able to use IT and tools such as MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel - essential
• Local labour market trends and the needs of employers - essential
• Of how to identify and effectively manage stakeholders - essential
• Knowledge of the benefits agency and disability/employment-related benefits - desirable
• Knowledge of the Equality Act and how these impacts on supporting people with disabilities in to work - desirable
• Knowledge of supported internships - desirable
• Knowledge of the access to work scheme and application process - desirable

Skills

• Good motivational, communication and listening skills.
• Ability to present to information and promote services to stakeholders both in person and virtually
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and ability to build rapport with a range of people.
• Good organisational ability
• Strong negotiating and networking skills
• Natural ability to build close, trusting and productive relationships with people.
• Team-orientated and works collaboratively within a mixed-disciplinary team
• Ability to work independently and use initiative to develop and promote a service

Personal qualities

• Non-judgemental and trustworthy
• Empathy with the needs of those with disabilities and  health support needs
• Passion and drive to make a positive difference to people's lives.
• Highly motivated with a genuine belief that someone with a disability/health condition can find paid employment.
• Resilient and tenacious to not give up despite setbacks and frustrations.
• Self-aware of personal strengths and weaknesses and actively invest in personal and professional development.
• Willingness to travel within the region and work in a hybrid way

PLEASE NOTE: An external application form will have to be completed to be considered for this role. This will be sent to you once you have applied below.