Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term until 31st December 2023.
Would you like to play a key role in providing Information advice and guidance to young people aged 15-25?
Join our highly professional and dedicated Connexions to provide Information, Advice and Guidance to young people to help them to make well informed choices about their future education, training or employment. This is an exciting opportunity to be a valued member of our team in Leicester, meeting with young people in a variety of community and neighbourhood settings across the city. We aim to support those in education who are more vulnerable to NEET including those with special educational needs or who are care experienced or young people from marginalised communities.
You’ll have flexibility in hybrid working being based at schools and within the general community or working remotely from home to suit your needs. This is a fixed term, full-time post until December 2023.Core working hours will be 37 hours a week, working 8.30am-5.00pm Monday to Thursday and 8.30am-4.30pm on a Friday. We offer flexible and agile working to promote a healthy/work-life balance.
What you’ll be doing
A key part of the role is to provide impartial careers guidance and support to young people aged 15-25 by advising them on applications beyond Year 11 education - including college applications, apprenticeship and training opportunities. With a manageable caseload of young people, you’ll provide ongoing encouragement to help them overcome barriers that prevent their capacity to engage with learning and education and employment. This includes practical help and support with writing CV’s, completing applications, as well as advice on interview skills and assessments. Working closely with colleagues, training providers and employers, you’ll provide employment and training advice to identified young people to integrate them into the labour market. You’ll provide Careers Guidance to young people in a variety of setting including schools, college and training provider premises to help them participate in learning.
What you'll need
With experience of working with young people, providing them with information, advice and guidance, you’ll also have experience of working with clients who have faced significant barriers to entering employment and education and advocating on their behalf. You’ll have knowledge and understanding of the challenges and issues facing young people, businesses, individuals, and communities and how these can be addressed. Using excellent interpersonal skills and your expertise, you'll be able to relate to young people to gain an understanding of their needs and help them to plan for their future career aspirations. With your ability to proactively engage, develop and motivate young people, you’ll raise their aspirations to ensure a positive progression into employment, education, or training.
Appointment to this role is based on an Enhanced Children’s and Adults DBS and Driving Licence check.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact: Zulekha Karim –Operations Manager via email at Zulekha.Karim@leicester.gov.uk.
Interviews/Assessments will take place on Tuesday 13th December 2022.