Employment Consultant in Birmingham

Location: Birmingham

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: Shaw Trust

Job Hours: Full-time

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“Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody.

I am proud to be part of this great organisation.

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Purpose

As an Employment Consultant you will help a wide range of people who are currently unemployed to find the right employment for them.

You will be an effective communicator, able to positively influence, engage with recruiters and motivate people.

Whilst working in a supportive team environment, this is a role with autonomy where you will be trusted to make decisions and manage your time to deliver your role and meet your objectives.

You will meet a wide range of people, working collaboratively to understand their goals, areas where they may need support, and put in place an effective and engaging action plan to help them to find the right job.

You will be solution focused and carry out proactive job searches, engaging with local employers and sign posting to other local services to help people access the right support.

This role is a target driven role to be able to generate the necessary performance activity to create opportunities for your participants you are supporting.

This will include engaging with a variety of industries to generate and actively promote the skills and abilities of our participants that will support them into sustained employment.

You will be experienced in engaging with external stakeholders, providing support, advice, guidance or coaching to positively influence other people’s professional or personal development.

You will be an effective communicator, able to build rapport with people and have a flexible and resilient approach.

We welcome applications from candidates with transferable skills, we provide full training and the opportunity to develop and enhance your skills and progress your career.

Download the Job Description for full details and Person Specification.

Locations

The role holder will be based in our Grosvenor House office in Birmingham City Centre.

How to apply

To apply upload your CV and a supporting statement.

Employee Benefits

At Shaw Trust you will be joining a supportive, values driven team, who are passionate about helping people.

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About Shaw Trust

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At Shaw Trust we believe in fairness, equality and opportunity. We believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility. Having grown from humble beginnings in 1982 in the village of Shaw in Wiltshire, finding jobs for disabled people, today we are a complex and diverse group committed to employment as the core pathway to a better life. We have grown through a combination of organic growth, mergers and acquisitions to be the UK’s largest Not-for-Profit (NFP) social enterprise in the employment sector. Empowering people from childhood to career our services embrace employability, education, learning and skills, children’s services and health and wellbeing support.