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East Midlands Chamber

REF NO. EMC28

Employment Specialist

Ongoing (we close ongoing adverts once sufficient applications are received)

£26,520 to £30,000 per annum

Fixed term until 29 November 2024, full time (35 hours per week)

Nottingham. Regular travel required between delivery locations across Nottinghamshire

recruitment@emc-dnl.co.uk

03333200333

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Overview

Why the post exists

Do you have an understanding of Individual Placement and Support (IPS), the health and wellbeing landscape and supporting people with significant barriers back into meaningful employment?

As an Employment Specialist within the Employment Services department, you will make a real difference to the community by supporting the delivery of the IPSPC Working Well East Midlands Programme in Nottingham City and South Nottinghamshire, which aims to help people with physical and mental health conditions to secure or return to sustainable paid employment.

You will be a self-motivated and target-driven individual who has a track record of delivering excellent customer service and wants to help people achieve their full potential.

Overview

Key areas of responsibility

  • Manage a caseload of participants using the Individual Placement and Support approach.
  • Provide person-centred advice and guidance to participants.
  • Meet participants to understand their key skills, aspirations and goals as well as assessing support needs.
  • Complete Vocational Profiles and produce Action Plans.
  • Build positive relationships with local employers to enable participants to move into suitable employment including sourcing job opportunities and raising awareness of reasonable adjustments, return to work strategies and ongoing contact.
  • Work collaboratively with Primary Care and NHS teams, job centres, VCS organisations and training partners to maintain positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to recovery through employment.
  • Able and willing to travel across Nottinghamshire to meet participants and employers to ensure our services are accessible to all.

For more information please click here to view the job description and person specification.

Overview

Ideally applicants will possess

  • A can-do, upbeat and energetic attitude.
  • Be self-motivated and looking for a unique challenge.  
  • Are confident delivering employability support both one-to-one and in group settings.  
  • Have excellent local knowledge of support services and employment opportunities.  
  • Able to show compassion and build rapport with participants.  
  • Able to motivate participants and support them to achieve their goals.
  • Has experience of working towards challenging targets.  
  • Thrives on challenging targets.
  • Passionate about helping people to achieve their potential.
  • Be dependable, reliable, trustworthy and capable of exercising diplomacy.
  • Experience of working within a welfare to work or IPS programme, or similar relevant role.

Benefits

What you can expect in return

#1

25 days holiday plus bank holidays each year (pro rata for part time)

#2

8% non-contributory pension scheme

#3

Wellbeing support including access to Westfield Health plan, Mental Health First Aiders, self help toolkits, discounts and more

#4

Your Birthday off plus an extra day of leave after 5 and 10 years' service

#5

Life assurance (death in service support scheme) for your beneficiaries

#6

Dress for the day policy and agile working practices (role dependent)

#7

2 CSR days to take per year (volunteering activity)

#8

Access to tax-free childcare and Bike2Work schemes

#9

Special leave for bereavement, compassionate leave & dependent related time off

#10

Learning and development opportunities

#11

Flexibility to take unpaid leave, paid study leave & special leave for territorial army

#12

Recognition and engagement schemes including our Our Stars

#13

Tax free 45p per business mile for cars (up to 10,000 miles per year)

#14

Employee social events

Company Overview

About us

East Midlands Chamber, UK Chamber of the Year, is a well-respected and award winning organisation that aims to enhance businesses and communities in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. With more than 4,000 members, we have established a reputation as the voice of the region's economy.

Our accreditations and awards

  • Charter for inclusive entrepreneurship

How to apply

Found a great role? It’s easy to work for us. Simply follow the three steps below. If you have any questions, please get in touch.

Apply for this role

Send your CV and a covering letter detailing why you believe that you will add value to the role and the Chamber to recruitment@emc-dnl.co.uk with the subject line as the vacancy reference, EMC28.

Alternatively, post your application to: FAO HR department, East Midlands Chamber, Commerce House, Millennium Way, Dunston Road, Chesterfield, S41 8ND

Applications that do not include both a CV and covering letter will not be considered.

If you’re successful at this stage, you will be invited for an interview. If you’re unsuccessful, the Chamber’s HR team will let you know by email.

First, you’ll be invited to interview onsite at our Nottingham office within 10 days of the advert closure. If your interview goes well, you may be invited to attend a second interview or offered the role. Some interviews might require you to compile some research or to prepare a presentation. At the end of the interview, the interviewer will confirm the timeline for next steps.

Interviews usually last around an hour with a mix of competency based interview questions, and in some cases, we might ask you to carry out some practical exercises.

Decisions will be made at each stage of the process, as we score applicants against the role criteria. If you’re successful, we will contact you to make an offer. This will be followed up in writing and a contract will be sent to you once a start date is confirmed. You will receive information on your induction and what you will do on your first day. If you have any questions, please just get in touch.

If you’re unsuccessful, we will either write to you or contact you by telephone, and if you’ve attended an interview we’re more than happy to provide feedback. You’re welcome to apply again for another role in the future.

Chamber Statement

East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire) is an equal opportunities employer and Disability Confident Leader.

All suitably qualified individuals are encouraged to apply for vacancies, and they will be considered solely based on merit regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. The business is dedicated to retaining talent and therefore it may decide to prioritise and support internal applicants during recruitment exercises. Applicants are required to disclose any unspent convictions or cautions and company director disqualifications in their covering letter. Any reasonable adjustments needed to support applicants should be submitted to recruitment@emc-dnl.co.uk