Salary: £31k

Location: Office-based role in Basingstoke (RG21 4HG) Mon - Fri 9-5pm

The Role

The Employer Solutions Consultant (Recruitment) provides a pivotal and valued service within the team by supporting the sustainable employment of disadvantaged people within our communities. The Employer Solutions Consultant builds and maintains external relationships with employers and our customers by focusing on matching skillsets and values with local employment opportunities. Ideal for anyone with sales, business development, account management or recruitment experience.

You will be…

• An advocate for Fedcap and the Restart Scheme, embedding a strong understanding of the benefits of sustainable employment and how we can support local businesses and our customers cohesively. This will be achieved through a collaborative and entrepreneurial approach.

• Providing employers with high-quality and tailored services, including recruitment, with a variable focus on business development, sales and candidate preparation dependant on the employer and operational requirements.

• Engaging with local businesses and employment initiatives to develop a portfolio of live vacancies.

• Supporting customers in developing their skills and confidence in obtaining new sustainable employment, including candidate preparation prior to interview or job start

• Identifying employment and other work-related opportunities with employers through marketing candidates directly into employers.

• Delivering performance against agreed sales, service and quality KPI’s.

• Supporting candidates to become self-sufficient in job search activity, through adopting coaching and mentoring approaches and working with small groups.

• Identifying opportunities for the development and growth of 'employer accounts' through following sales process, including qualifying opportunities and escalation.

About you…

Can you embrace our company values which are Kindness, Respect, Integrity, and Innovation?

Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications

• Experience of business development, account management, sales and meeting targets

• Experience of working in a customer focused and service delivery environment

• Knowledge of the local regional and national labour market

• Understanding of employer’s needs, experience of training needs analysis (TNA’s) and organisational needs analysis (ONA’s), translating these in to fit-for-purpose programmes and services

• Knowledge of legislative employment regulations including safeguarding.

Key Competencies:

• Adaptability

• Communication

• Results focused

• Relationship & rapport building

• Resilience

• Quality & compliance.

What's in it for you?

...a rewarding career that makes a genuine difference to people’s lives.

• You won’t work on weekends or bank holidays!

• A monthly benefits scheme worth £500 with access to over 900 retailers

• A cycle to work scheme that is open all year long!

• Laptop and mobile phone for every employee!

• Employee assistance programme (EAP). A telephone service offering various support services including emotional support, stress helpline amongst others.

• The opportunity of an Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP) qualification for all employees

• A two-week Induction and training programme

• Company annual leave, including a buy/sell scheme

• Free life cover!

• Pension with a 4% match from Fedcap

Additional information

To learn more about our recruitment process, our Disability Confident Scheme and Access to Work please click here. (https://www.fedcapemployment.org/what-happens-when-you-apply)

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Fedcap Employment is committed to applying equal opportunities at all stages of recruitment and selection, in line with its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy in addition to our duty under the Equality Act 2010 to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination; to advance equality of opportunity.

Fedcap Employment is a Disability Confident Leader employer and as such, any candidate with a disability will not be excluded unless the candidate is unable to perform a duty intrinsic to the role, having considered reasonable adjustments. Reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process will be made to ensure that no applicant is disadvantaged because of their disability.

Disability confident employer

Fedcap is a recognised Disability Confident Leader with commitments to aim to recruit, retain and develop disabled people within the company. We encourage applications from people with disabilities and will offer to support with reasonable adjustments where required.

Veterans and service personnel

Fedcap is positive about employing veterans and service personnel spouses or family members as part of our commitment to upholding principles of the Armed Forces Covenant.

Advert expiry: If you are interested in the position we recommend applying at your earliest convenience. Fedcap reserves the right to withdraw a job advertisement at any time.

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