Careers Adviser - Green Skills

Employment:   FTC until 31^st March 2025

Hours:  37 hours per week

Location: Maid Marian Way, Nottingham

Salary:   Grade 5 (£27,250 - £30,500) - pro rata for part time

Closing Date: 17^th May 2024 (position will close as soon as sufficient applications are received) 

Interview Date: 24^th May 2024

What are we looking for?  

Futures are recruiting for a Careers Adviser to deliver on the Local Skills Improvement Fund (LSIF) Project, a partnership with Nottingham college to recruit and support customers to access Green Skills training courses at Nottingham College based at their EMTEC campus in Ruddington, Nottingham.

The successful candidate will ideally have an IAG qualification at Level 4 (lower level IAG qualifications will be considered if willing to study to level 4). They will be a good communicator, highly organised and be able to work with a wide variety of customers. Partnership working with internal and external stakeholders is a key element of this role therefore the successful candidate will need to have excellent stakeholder management skills.

The post holder will be part of the Targeted Support Division but will work across all Futures teams (NCS, AEB, Restart) to identify customers who are interested in green skills training courses (L1.2. 3 and apprenticeships) which are being delivered at Nottingham College’s Green Skills Production Hub. The post holder will work closely with Nottingham College to enrol people on the courses and will support the customer to overcome any barriers that may prevent them starting or sustaining attendance on the course. This will be a very exciting role that provides an opportunity to support customers onto initiative new courses in the real growth area of green skills.

Roles & Responsibilities 

The post holder will:

• Promote Green skills jobs and training across all Futures contracts and with external partners to identify customers who are interested in gaining training, qualifications, and employment in this sector.
• Refer customers to Nottingham College Green skills hub and support customers to enrol on courses.
• Raise aspirations, motivation, and self confidence through identifying and removing barriers.
• Use communication and coaching tools to provide information, advice and guidance to customers on a one to one and group basis via digital and non digital methods in a variety of settings.
• Actively participate in outreach work, attend careers fairs and promotional events.
• Demonstrate resilience in working with some of the most vulnerable customers who face multiple complex barriers.
• Deliver agreed individual targets relating to both volume and quality in line with contract compliance. Using good reports and databases to manage own caseload. Ensuring good time management and effective use of resources.
• Maintain accurate records in a timely manner.
• Engage in the quality process including collecting customer feedback.
• Be required to work in various locations in line with business need.
• Promote and uphold equal opportunities.
• Develop and maintain own professional knowledge.
• Comply with safeguarding and GDPR requirements in line with policy and legislation.
• Undertake any other duties that may be reasonably regarded as within scope of the role.

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.pdf

Who Are We?

At Futures, we support people and businesses to develop, grow and be the best they can be. Rated by OFSTED as Good, 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 Salary Sacrifice Scheme with 5% employer contribution and 3% employee contribution.
• Holidays: 25 days Annual leave + 8 Bank Holidays during first year of service increasing to 30 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10.
• Westfield Health insurance covering optical and dental appointments and 24/7 counselling and advice.
• Westfield Rewards: Access to special offers on goods and services from 450 leading online and high street retailers.
• Holiday Plus: Opportunity to buy additional leave.
• Protection of Loss of No Claims Bonus/Excess Insurance Scheme: Designed to provide a measure of compensation for Loss of Bonus or payment of Excess.
• Travel Schemes: Schemes with Nottingham City Transport and Tram network to provide discounted rates for regular bus and tram travel.
• Refer a Friend: refer a friend for a job at Futures and you could get £250.00 in vouchers.
• Volunteering Opportunities: A day to undertake an activity that helps others for a good cause.
• Reward and Recognition: Long Service, Monthly and Annual recognition awards.

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.