Are you passionate about making a difference in people’s lives?

Our Staffordshire Jobs and Careers Brokerage Service are looking for 2 Senior Employment Brokers to help develop and deliver our services, as well as implement specialist projects across Staffordshire.

As a Senior Employment Broker, you will:

• Support Residents: Provide advice and guidance to residents with specialist and complex needs, ensuring a comprehensive end-to-end recruitment and in-work support service.
• Assist Businesses: Match job seekers to business requirements, supporting their recruitment needs.
• Lead a Team: Manage a team of Employment Brokers, ensuring they proactively support residents and businesses with a range of opportunities.

These roles are fixed term for 2 years.

You will:

• Develop and deliver new employability projects, policies, and procedures.
• Line manage a team of Employment Brokers to ensure effective service delivery.
• Manage a caseload of job seekers with specialist and complex needs, helping them achieve sustainable employment.
• Establish relationships with employers to support their recruitment needs and encourage them to consider candidates with complex needs.
• Monitor and analyse KPIs to ensure team objectives are met.
• Promote SJC and its programmes through internal and external relationships and develop a communications strategy.

You will have:

• Experience of providing excellent customer service to job seekers, especially those facing barriers to employment, with empathy and an understanding of various job seeker cohorts.
• An understanding of how to support candidates with additional needs into sustainable employment and how to encourage businesses to support these candidates.
• Employer engagement experience.
• Experience in developing and delivering new services and projects within employability.
• Experience working with external partners, organisations, and providers supporting employability programmes, including government incentives.
• Line management and training experience, with a track record of setting and achieving targets and objectives.
• Customer-focused, with strong communication skills to engage effectively with employers, partners, and colleagues.

If you’re ready to make a real impact and help shape the future of employment services in Staffordshire, apply today!

Interviews will take place 2nd & 3rd October 2024.

Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Vicky Perry, Employability Manager at:  vicky.perry@staffordshire.gov.uk

“We’re happy to talk flexible working” 

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. 

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. 

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.