Employment Specialist (Various posts across Dorset & Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole)

Are you passionate about helping people into sustainable employment?Join us in delivering the Connect to Work programme, a dynamic, person-centred employment support initiative designed to help individuals living in Dorset and Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (BCP).Connect to Work is a voluntary employment support programme that helps people with disabilities, long-term health conditions, such as mental ill health and other complex challenges, secure and retain employment. Through personalised support and strong partnerships with local employers, we aim to empower people to overcome barriers and thrive in meaningful employment.We’re building a passionate and dynamic team to deliver the Connect to Work programme across Dorset and BCP and we’re currently recruiting for a range of exciting roles!If you’re enthusiastic about helping people into meaningful employment and think you’ve got the skills, experience, or potential to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.Applications are welcomed from people with lived experience.We are a flexible employer and provide a variety of working arrangements tailored to the needs of each role. Part time working would be considered for this role.Main responsibilitiesmanage a caseload of participants with disabilities / health support needs and other barriers to employment, employing IPS methods to offer personalised guidance and support meet, assess and support participants to understand their key skills, aspirations, and goals through completing a Vocational Profile and production of an Action Plan to help them obtain and sustain competitive employment.provide person-centred advice and guidance to participantsmaintain a community focus and work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams, support services, referral partners, education partners, Primary Care and NHS teams, job centres and VCS organisations to maintain positive and integrated relationships, fostering a holistic approach to support build positive relationships with local employers to enable participants to move into and / or maintain suitable employment including sourcing job opportunities and raising awareness of reasonable adjustments, return to work strategies and ongoing contact, reducing barriers in the workplace and supporting employers to become disability confidentprovide a quality service through conducting regular visits, effective monitoring and in-work training and support to participants and employers to help sustain employment