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Part Time Careers and Progression Advisor

Employer
Essex County Council
Location
England, Essex, Chelmsford
Salary
£23344 - £26011 per annum + Pro Rata
Closing date
14 Nov 2024
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Part Time Careers and Progression Advisor

Permanent, Part Time

£23,344 to £26,011 Per Annum. Full Time Equivilent

Location: Chelmsford

Closing Date: Thursday 14th November 2024 at 11.59pm

An exciting opportunity to join this new team. The Careers and Progression Advisor works in a customer-facing role, actively engaging with future and existing learners at ACL to support them in achieving their goals and move into positive destinations including further learning, volunteering, or employment. Working Countywide but with a specific remit for West, and South Essex.

Please note that this opportunity is being offered on a Part Time basis, offering 0.8 Full Time Equivalent.

There is also an opportunity for this to be a job share.

Interviews: W/C 2nd December 2025

The Opportunity

Adult Community Learning (ACL) is ECC's provider of lifelong learning experiences for Essex residents. ACL offers qualifications to help people move nearer to, enter, or progress within the workplace or gain skills to enhance life chances. The service focuses many of its programmes and activities on the hardest to reach communities within Essex. ACL learners have access to a diverse range of accredited and non-accredited courses which encourage creativity, healthy lifestyles, social inclusion, and engagement. The Career and Skills Progression Advisor assists the Quality and Compliance Team in a customer-facing role, actively engaging with future and existing learners at ACL to support them in achieving their goals and move into positive destinations including further learning, volunteering, or employment.

Accountabilities

  • Provide high quality and impartial information, advice and guidance to existing and potential learners including bespoke provision for ACL learners who are actively looking for work, using effective referral processes and signposting to both internal and external support.
  • Facilitate self-directed learning opportunities within ACL centres as well as frontline support to learners accessing face to face, online and blended learning, using digital devices and platforms such as Microsoft Teams.
  • Raise learner aspirations, identifying individual needs, and providing support to participate in learning opportunities, gain employment, or progression in work.
  • Develop and maintain high quality information resources for learners and stakeholders, both in centre and online.
  • Establish and deliver innovative ways to support ACL staff to access resources that will support learner progression, including up to date with local, regional, and national initiatives including local labour market intelligence.
  • Work to meet the requirements of the Education Inspection Framework and Matrix Standard, ensuring a high-quality learning experience for our customers.

The Experience You Will Bring

Essential:

  • Careers Education, Information Advice and Guidance practitioner, with a relevant qualification at Level 2 or equivalent by experience.
  • Well-developed organisational skills with experience of working in a team and the ability to organise own workload and work to deadlines.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area, including the adult learning sector.
  • Experience of working in a customer-focussed environment with excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with a wide range of audiences.

Desirable:

  • Experience of coaching and mentoring.
  • High level working knowledge of IT and in particular Microsoft packages including Teams, Word, Excel, and Outlook.
  • Ability to collect data, interrogate it and provide evaluative reports based on an analysis of the findings.

Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.

Company

Why Essex?

Essex County Council covers 1,300 square miles from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary. From the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest – Basildon and Harlow – are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career.

We celebrate difference and work to ensure that no one is disadvantaged when accessing services, employment or public life in Essex. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interviewing all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. We’re also committed to interviewing all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

Free to deliver big

We recruit creative, ambitious, talented people, and free them up to think – and deliver – big.

We’ve made substantial changes in recent years, reorganising how we’re structured and how we work, so we can protect the most vulnerable and enable our economy to grow. Join us and you’ll be trusted to take control, manage change and make a lasting impact. You’ll be able to call upon external partners and suppliers to help you deliver. More importantly, talented, trailblazing colleagues – including many industry-leaders – will be right by your side to share ideas, knowledge and experience.

Find out how Essex County Council is changing, and how you’ll fit in.

Employee Recognition & Engagement

Here are some of the things we have in place to give our employees a sense of belonging, involvement and recognition. 

Employee Networks:

  • Ethnically Diverse Employee Network (EDEN)
  • Carers Forum 
  • Christian Network 
  • Disabled Employees Network 
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Network
  • Parents Network 
  • Women’s Network
  • Men’s Network
  • Young People and Apprentice Network. 

You Make The Difference’ Awards - giving employees the opportunity to nominate individuals or teams who go above and beyond for our residents.

Employee Surveys – where we listen to the voices of our people and take action on what we hear.

Employee Panels – giving you the opportunity to feed back on a range of policies and initiatives, network with colleagues and influence far-reaching changes.

Learning and Development

We have developed diverse learning opportunities to support our people to grow both personally and professionally. This includes:

  • A large suite of online training and tools
  • Dedicated learning events such as ‘LearnFest’ – our flagship annual celebration of learning
  • Apprenticeships for both new and existing colleagues
  • Financial support to achieve professional qualifications
  • Support from subject matter experts 
  • The opportunity to share your own expertise to up-skill colleagues
  • Leadership and executive coaching
  • Learning on demand
  • Career pathways

Rewards and Benefits

  • Family Friendly flexible Working
  • Generous holiday and special leave allowances (including the option to purchase extra holiday)
  • Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Life Assurance of three times annual salary
  • Volunteering leave (up to 4 days per year)
  • Employee wellbeing and counselling
  • Travel discounts & season ticket loans
  • Learning and Development opportunities/coaching & mentoring
  • Payment of professional fees for approved professions
  • Eye care vouchers
  • Lease car scheme (dependent on business needs)
  • Up to £8,000 relocation package (subject to terms and conditions)

You’ll also have access to MyReward, a unique platform for Essex County Council employees to gain various discounts and savings.

Your Wellbeing

At Essex County Council we are committed to supporting the wellbeing of our people. We work closely with our employees to provide wellbeing support based on their needs. We strive to enable the right environment, conditions, and behaviours so individual and organisational wellbeing is embedded in everything we do.

Join us and get Inspired to do More.

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Telephone
0845 743 0430
Location
County Hall
Market Road
 Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 1QH
United Kingdom
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