Employment Specialist (4578)
Employment Specialist
The Growth Company’s (GC) IPS Employment team is looking for an Employment Specialist to support participants in drug and alcohol treatment. The role involves using a multi-channel, multi-agency approach to help participants successfully enter and progress in the workforce.
We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment. Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage a caseload of 24 clients motivated to start/return to work using the IPS approach.
- Create Vocational Profiles and Action Plans to help clients achieve sustainable employment.
- Assist with job search, CV production, application forms, interview techniques, and career development.
- Build relationships with clinical teams to generate referrals and promote employment.
- Attend weekly team meetings and provide ongoing support after employment is secured.
- Ensure accurate documentation and assess client needs related to work, including benefits/welfare advice.
- Source job opportunities through tailored searches and employer contacts.
- Educate and support employers to ensure job retention.
About you:
- A warm, approachable style to delivery is required in order to build relationships and rapport.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiating skills.
- Ability to work in a target-driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of job outcomes and sustained outcomes.
- Developing knowledge of a broad range of occupations and jobs.
Skills required:
- Deliver one-to-one and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard.
- Understand issues affecting individuals with multiple barriers to employment.
- Expertise in support agencies for complex needs (e.g., debt, substance misuse, housing).
- Place customers into suitable and sustained employment.
- Knowledge in guidance, advice, and counselling environments.
- Experience with disabled people or similar client groups in substance use treatment, health, social services, or the voluntary sector.
- High-level guidance skills for one-to-one and group sessions.
- Experience with people with multiple and complex needs, including health conditions and disabilities.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.
If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.