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Skill Overview

Helping people to address and overcome obstacles to secure employment.

Learning Objectives

* Manage their caseload of challenging and complex cases.	
* Conduct holistic initial assessments, action plans, job search, job brokerage and other interventions with service users, either face-to-face or remotely, on an individual or group basis, and record them. Evaluate the effectiveness of service user interventions and make improvements where relevant.	
* Provide information, advice and guidance on employability, careers and local labour market information to service users, employers and colleagues. This may include opportunities to service the green economy in the local labour market.	
* Signpost services to relevant third-party provision, taking a multi-agency (e.g. mental health services, probation service, police, social care services, health care services, local authorities etc.) and integrated services approach.	
*  Use non-clinical behavioural change techniques with service users.	
* Coach and mentor both service users and colleagues to support their development.	
*Provide appropriate in work support to the service user which can then support them to stay and progress in employment.	
* Identify internal and external networking opportunities for partnership building and establishing working relationships with key stakeholders.	
* Manage challenging and complicated situations within own level of authority and make recommendations to enable and deliver change to improve service delivery.	
* Participate in practice development sessions, self-reflection, caseload reviews and observations to support own and others’ development via peer to peer support.	
* Proactively gather service user feedback, critically analyse it, evaluate the meaning / implications and act upon it. Make recommendations to inform service delivery.	
* Be responsible for and maintain own continuing professional and personal development, particularly within own specialism such as the labour market needs of the green economy and the move to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.	
* Adhere to and apply safeguarding and PREVENT policies, procedures and best practice.	
* Understand the employability industry including professional standards, welfare benefits, funding systems and key stakeholders.	
* Adhere to, and support others to adhere to, relevant legislation and company vision, mission, values, policies and procedures.	
* Promote equality of opportunity, embrace diversity and inclusion.	
* Meet minimum service levels and adhere to contractual requirements and support others to do so as well.

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For apprentices aged 16-21 the training costs are fully funded by the government. For apprentices aged over 21, there is a 5% co-investment, which would be paid by the employer. Alternatively, the training costs can be covered by utilising the Apprenticeship Levy Fund.

For levy-paying employers, 100% of costs are covered. Non-Levy paying employers 95% of costs are covered, with the option of levy transfer for the 5% remaining.

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