Careers Adviser (Bedfordshire) Remote
Job description
Employment: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: Bedfordshire
Salary: £27,250 - £30,500 pro rata for part time (Grade 5)
Closing Date: 24 September 2023 (position will close as soon as sufficient applications are received)
What are we looking for?
Futures are recruiting for a Careers Advisers to work as part of the Bedfordshire team, with the ability to travel to Cambridge and Peterborough (desirable). To provide careers information, advice and guidance (IAG) to our customers in a variety of organisations and locations throughout the county.
The successful candidate will have a passion for making a difference to people’s lives and promoting social mobility; supporting customers to remove barriers to employment and training, to access opportunities to progress in the world of work, and to manage their careers. It’s essential for the candidate to have a ‘can-do’, proactive, and flexible style of working.
Through seeking out local labour market information, this role will provide customers with local awareness of opportunities and trends. The successful candidate will promote the service with local partners and organisations, to build the referrals coming through our service. Flexibility, creativity, and the desire to succeed in a target driven environment are key to success in this role.
The successful candidate will have:
- Ideally a qualification to NVQ3, in Careers Information Advice and Guidance, or equivalent (desirable)
- The ability to use technology effectively (word processing, databases, MS TEAMS, email, internet, and social media)
- Experience of IAG (information, advice, and guidance) in supporting customers to progress into work and learning - can be face to face or via the phone and other digital tools
- Excellent interpersonal skills (particularly effective communication, flexibility, adaptability, and initiative skills)
- Knowledge of how to effectively apply for jobs or training – how to write a good CV and supporting job statement
- The ability to manage time and work in a target driven environment whilst maintaining quality standards
- Effective administrative, organisational, and planning skills
- A positive, approachable team player with a can-do attitude
How to apply:
To apply please submit your CV and a supporting statement which matches your skills to our Person Specification which you can find in our Job Description by copying the below link into your browser:
https://www.the-futures-group.com/fg/files/job-description-careers-adviser-(1).docx
Who Are We?
At Futures, we support people and businesses to develop, grow and be the best they can be. Rated by Ofsted as Outstanding, all of our services are clear, enterprising and bespoke. We are leading a change in career support that focuses on the whole person not just the job applicant. Our mission is to be at the forefront of careers advice, skills and support that turn ambition into a successful career and fulfilling life. At Futures, our company-wide values underpin who we are and what we do, and it’s essential that all colleagues share these.
- Have passion
- Do the right thing
- Make a difference
Join our team and help us make a difference to people’s lives.
What can we offer?
- Pension Plus Plan: Automatic enrolment into the People’s Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution and 3% employee contribution
- Holidays: 33 days Annual leave (inclusive of Bank Holidays) increasing to 30 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10
- Westfield Health insurance and Westfield Rewards
- Opportunity to buy additional leave after a year’s service
- Travel Schemes with Nottingham City Transport and Tram network to provide discounted rates for regular bus and tram travel
Disability Confident
As a Disability Confident employer, we undertake to interview disabled people who meet the minimum essential criteria as detailed on the person specification. If you have a disability, please make this known in your application. We will be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.
Safeguarding:
Futures are committed to recruiting with care and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Background checks and Disclosed Barring Service checks together with Vero social media and online checks may be required for this role. If the company finds anything in these which might be considered prejudicial to their working within the regulated activity, then the appointment may not be confirmed.
GDPR
Your personal data will be used to process your employment application; successful candidates’ data will be held under the company’s General Data Protection Policy details of which will be made available upon the offer of employment. Unsuccessful candidate’s data will be held for a period of 12 months upon which it will be destroyed.
