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JOB DESCRIPTION
Employment Advisor
Days: Monday to Friday
Hours: 35 hours per week. Core hours 9am – 4.30pm
Evening work on occasion
Start date: By negotiation
Salary: £25,521
Expenses: If applicable and authorised in advance
Overall objective: to assist people with depression and anxiety spectrum disorders to obtain and sustain employment.
- Manage a caseload of people resident in Tower Hamlets to support them retain their jobs or support them in to new employment by:
- Identifying the type of intervention and support required
- Creating an action plan individual to that intervention
- Liaising closely with referrer to secure relevant information
- Making referrals to outside agencies where appropriate
- Providing advice to the participant and where appropriate employer relevant to that intervention
- To closely work with Working for Wellness therapists to enable individuals to return to existing or new employment
- Liaise with employer to ensure participants return to their current job and or gain new employment within their existing organisation
- Provide advice and guidance to employers where appropriate
- To assess appropriate support to participants when back in employment that may include return to work benefits, travel work issues, time-management, copies strategies, work life routine.
- To maintain professional relationships with employers and mental health professionals.
- To act as an advocate with existing employers when requested by participants and provide work based support.
- To support participants with relevant employment issues and legislation.
- To advise employers of relevant employment issues and legislation.
- To work flexibly including working out of hours, across sites and peripatetically.
- To support and advise participants and employers on how to best manage mental health in the workplace.
- To advise participants on back to work benefits using Quick Benefits Calculator software, and to liaise with the Benefit Agency when necessary.
- To assist participants with the use of Adult Directions, a career guidance tool.
- To support admin systems which record the progress of participants and keep accurate and complete records of casework with them.
- Give presentations to outside organisations; attend weekly and monthly meetings, and seminars.
- Recognise the confidential and sensitive nature of the information gathered about each participant.
- To attend regular committee meetings of Working Well Trust.
- Attending and contributing to regular team meetings and supervision.
- To liaise on a regular basis with participants non-clinical support agencies including families where appropriate.
- To provide monthly reports and quarterly statistics to line manager.
- The job description may be reviewed in light of emerging service requirements as this is a pilot project.
Person Specification
Employment Advisor
This employee specification contains the essential and desirable criteria which candidates should possess in order to satisfy the performance requirements for this post.
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Qualifications |
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- Qualification in vocational guidance
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Skills & Abilities |
- Negotiation and mentoring skills with people at all levels
- Good writing and verbal communication skills
- Strong organisational skills
- Good IT skills including Word, Excel and Internet
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Personal Qualities |
- Tact, diplomacy, patience, discretion on confidential matters, good sense of humour. Ability to build rapport.
- Proactive
- Willingness to work occasional evenings when necessary
- Ability to cope with complex and demanding caseload
- Ability to multi task
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Knowledge & Experience |
- Experience of providing support to disadvantaged clients
- Experience of providing employment support
- Fully conversant and committed to Equal Opportunities issues
- Knowledge of existing legislation relevant to employment and retention
- Understanding of the labour market
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- Previous knowledge of mental health issues
- Back to work calculations
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Relationships |
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a team and under own initiative
- Ability to work effectively with a wide range of individuals such as training providers, key workers
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Covering Letter |
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Working for Wellness Leaflet |
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