Specialist Employment Adviser
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Job Description
Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest
Salary: PO1 39855 - 42324
Contract Type: Full-time Permanent
Working hours per week: 36
Application Deadline: 07/09/2025
DBS: Enhanced Barred
Reference: 1825
About Us:
Bursting with culture energy and opportunity the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused insight-led digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of Londons Good Work Standardemployers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions workplace well-being skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.
About the role:
Overview
This will involve the management of your individual caseloads and reporting regularly to the Senior Specialist Employment Adviser and will be co-located with teams across the Stronger communities Directorate to deliver integrated services are part of the Councils Locality model.
We are looking for a dynamic flexible candidate. You must be able to work independently and part of a team have excellent communication skills and a desire to continue developing yourself and the services we provide.
Key Responsibilities:
Knowledge Skills and Experience
(The following three areas represent a summary of the essential elements of the person specification)
Knowledge
- Understanding of the key challenges facing residents with mental health support needs long term health conditions and disabilities or similar groups
- Understanding of the barriers faced by disadvantaged groups in accessing employment and ways in which these can be addressed and overcome
- Knowledge of the recruitment industry including skills shortages training methods and the means to access those opportunities
- Detailed or specialist knowledge of the recruitment needs of employers relevant in Waltham Forest
- Knowledge of Welfare Benefits and In-Work Benefits systems and how these affect unemployed people returning to work
Experience
- Experience of working with people on a one-to-one basis offering exceptional motivation and support
- Experience of working with and supporting people with mental health support needs long term health conditions and disabilities or similar groups
- Experience of working with employers to develop and implement new recruitment schemes including filling vacancies and carving opportunities for residents
- Experience of supporting residents within an IPS or Supported Employment framework
Skills
- An ability to motivate guide and support residents with a passion for making a difference to peoples lives
- An ability to work effectively on partnership projects across organisational boundaries and to tight deadlines
- The ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with a range of different people from employers to residents.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including an ability to communicate and negotiate with diplomacy in a range of settings at senior levels
- Excellent skills in the use of information technology including database word processing e-mail and internet use
Qualifications and Requirements:
Indicative Qualifications
A degree-level education or equivalent career experience
Qualified in Information advice and Guidance level 4 (desirable)
Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Terms and conditions:
The below terms and conditions apply to this role:
Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
Satisfactory declaration of interest;
This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults;
Satisfactory DBS check;
As a public authority we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English with confidence and accuracy sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications regional or international accents dialects speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the Apply button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair appropriate accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2 internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.
For more information on the benefits of working for the Council please visit Information:
If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process please contact Sharon Tassell (she/her) Operations and Services Manager
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post please contact our Recruitment Team via email at .
The Councils preference is for online application. However if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application please email so we can arrange an alternative application method.
Click here for further information on the Human Resources recruitment privacy notice.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
