Job vacancies
Work with us at Sandwell & Walsall
Come and join the Citizens Advice Sandwell & Walsall team where 84% of our people would recommend us as a great place to work. We value all our people and can offer a supportive culture within a charity setting, all of the roles below attract a rewarding package with excellent terms including:
Why work with us?
We offer our people:
- A flexible 37 hour working week
- A healthy work life balance
- Workplace pension
- Generous holiday entitlement (26 days per year in addition to bank holidays)
- Excellent training & development opportunities
- Recruitment Referral Incentives
- Annual Team Away Days
- Occupational Sick Pay
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye Care Vouchers
To apply for any of our vacancies please download an application form and return your completed application form to
staffrecruitment@citizensadvicesandwell-walsall.org
If you require a reasonable adjustment or other assistance to apply for any vacancies please contact the Recruitment Team at staffrecruitment@citizensadvicesandwell-walsall.org or call 07483 368469
Please note CV’s will not be accepted.
Employment Support Worker
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £24,480.00 per annum
Contract: Fixed term until 31st March 2025
Location: Sandwell
Closing Date: 19th April 2024
Provisional Interview Date: 26th April 2024
To work with young people aged (16-25) on a 1-1 basis to assess their support needs and identify barriers preventing them from accessing training, volunteering or employment opportunities.
Key responsibilities
- To design and deliver employability skills training including job search CV writing, interview skills and work ethics.
- To provide continued support throughout the young person’s journey including longer term in-work support and to promote independence and confidence in the young person enabling them to undertake assigned meaningful work.
- Manage a caseload, providing ongoing support to young people both through 1-1 and group engagement.
- Provide financial literacy support through the completion of benefit checks, budgeting sheets, referrals where needed to more specialist services, for example health and wellbeing services and debt.
- Keep abreast of all training, volunteering and employment opportunities in order to support young people to make informed decisions around their future goals and aspirations
- Have regular contact (using a case work approach) with those you are supporting and take reasonable steps to reestablish contact if this is lost.
- To have a knowledge of safeguarding issues relating to young people.
- To ensure that casework records are maintained in accordance with the project’s policies and procedures.
- To evaluate the support provided to each young person pre and post intervention.
