Trainee Careers Adviser:

Salary: £24,500-£26,000 per annum

Location: Oxfordshire County

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Additional Details: One day per week will be at home for administration catch up

Trainee Careers Adviser Job Summary:

Equation Recruitment are searching for a Trainee Careers Adviser on behalf of our client, to work across the county of Oxfordshire.

This role will be to provide information, advice, and guidance to adults on a range of opportunities, including learning and career paths and employment. Advisers empower customers enabling them to overcome barriers to progression. You will track their progress, provide ongoing support into opportunities and work in accordance with the company's contractual quality and quantitative standards.

If you care about people, want to make a difference and are looking for a change/new career this position could be for you!

Careers Advisor Key Responsibilities:

• To provide and delivery high quality, unbiased and impartial face to face careers information, advice and guidance, designed to inspire the individual into making better informed career choices.
• To achieve outcome targets based on interventions with customers
• To provide labour market, educational, occupational and other local information to enable clients to make informed decisions.
• Regular and timely tracking of customers to ensure evidence is gathered for outcomes as per the contract requirements.
• Provide referral support to customers to enable them to implement their decisions, including liaising with opportunity providers and adopting an advocacy role when required.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the role and work of external agencies, service providers, employers and training providers.
• Develop and maintain a full understanding of government initiatives to help customers to make informed choices on the range of learning and employment opportunities available to them.
• Keep up to date with current and future job demands. This will include the collection and interpretation of labour market information.
• Develop knowledge of various CV writing styles and interview expectations as relevant to local delivery.
• To promote the service and adhere to the company and National Careers Service branding guidelines.
• To attend, deliver and represent the company at Job Fairs and events across the region.
• Responsible for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all customers accessing the service.
• Maintaining and regularly updating the database system within agreed timescales to ensure customers records are maintained and contractual requirements fulfilled.
• Adhere to company policies and procedures.
• Undertake such other operational duties as may be required from time to time as directed by the Team Leader.

Candidate Profile:

The ideal candidate for this role will demonstrate empathy in the role and maintain an outstanding level of customer service. Alongside this, it is imperative that you always strive to achieve due to the fact this position is target focussed.

Driving Licence is preferred however not essential.

Learning and qualifications will be paid for.

No language contained within this advert is intended to unlawfully discriminate on the grounds of protected characteristics, under The Equality Act 2010.

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