Employment Officer- 30 hours Charity

Honeycomb are delighted to be partnering with a charitable organisation in the recruitment of an Employment Officer, 30 hours, remote, based in the North locality of NI at £23,812.

Your Package/Benefits:

• Remote working
• Flexible hours
• 24 Days holiday increasing with service, plus additional bank holidays
• HolidayPlus buy scheme (up to 10 extra days annual leave)
• Employer pension contribution
• High street discounts
• Health cash plan purchase scheme
• Access to award winning training and development

The company:

This a charity who have been supporting young people and adults with learning disabilities to find and sustain employment throughout Northern Ireland for over 30 years!

Your Role:

As an Employment Officer you will be supporting individuals to develop their personal and employability skills, to secure and sustain paid or voluntary work, assisting in progressing them towards their goals!

• Responsible for individual case load of service users to support
• Working as part of the team to deliver the service, supporting the Area Operations Manager and Service Managers through demonstrating best practice
• Supporting service users to achieve their goals, exploring and accessing employment and personal development opportunities for further training
• Ensuring the service user's needs and aspirations are met, enabling them to progress towards and sustain paid work
• Adhering to compliance regulations, ensuring the individuals being supported feel safe and confident in the service
• Correctly identifying needs of the service user, developing a support plan, implementing and reviewing within timeframes
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders, acting as an ambassador for the organisation through positive representation
• Proactively working with employers and others to raise awareness of the contribution of people with learning disabilities within the workforce, creating and seizing opportunities for training

Person Specification

• Experience supporting individuals to develop new and existing skills
• Ability to work effectively within a team
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, including ICT
• Ability to work independently, using own initiative
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Awareness of issues facing individuals with learning difficulties
• Maintaining confidentiality, understanding of GDPR
• Ability to work flexibly in accordance with the needs of the role
• Full clean driving licence for travel purposes within the post

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Caila Cunningham (02890131221) at Honeycomb on 028 9620 7050.

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