AddressJoin a team who are passionate about helping people gain and maintain employment. As an Employment Consultant in our Disability Employment Services team, you will support people with an injury, illness or disability to obtain sustainable employment. By providing outstanding customer service, mentorship, relationship building and sales development, you will enrich our customers’ lives by supporting them into long-term employment.
This role is based in Lakemba and will occasionally require travel to Bankstown and Revesby.
You will:
- Develop strong rapport to understand your participants' needs, interests, skills and experience
- Source alternative employment opportunities through networking and sales strategies
- Build and maintain relationships with potential and existing employers and community organisations
- Assist with participants’ resumes, job applications or challenges faced at work
- Identify and assess barriers towards employment and create solutions to support them at work and ongoing
- Create job plans with the participant to support clear pathways into maintaining employment
- Travel and meet with your customers employers to facilitate great stakeholder relationships
- Excellent salary package including base salary, superannuation, not-for-profit salary packaging (tax savings), a company laptop & iPhone and more
- A thriving organisation that genuinely cares for its people, our customers and the community at large
- Fantastic reward and recognition initiatives and ongoing learning and development (inc. full training upon commencement)
- Access to a generous range of employee benefits, including an annual Diversity Day, the ability to purchase additional annual leave and various healthy lifestyle initiatives
- Access to exclusive benefits and discounts from leading retailers
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Highly developed planning, coordination, and time management skills, along with attention to detail
- Full Australian Drivers license and car
- Experience working towards and achieving sales targets and KPIs
- Computer literacy and the ability to learn new computer systems
- You will thrive on our key attributes of Customer Centricity, Curiosity, Resilience, Adaptability, Creativity and a Growth Mindset while supporting a diverse range of clients into environments they are passionate about
- Tertiary qualification in a related field (preferred but not essential)
- Full Australian working rights, ability to satisfy national police check and Working with Children Check requirements
Celebrating 30 years in the employment services industry, WISE Employment is a not-for-profit organisation that is committed to providing quality employment, training and support to the disadvantaged members of our community, the long-term unemployed and people with disability. We aim to inspire, transform and empower people by connecting them with employers who care. WISE also operates two highly successful socially inclusive social enterprises along with a range of other programs and services aligned to the needs of the community.
Please visit our careers page, www.wiseemployment.com.au/careers-at-wise, to find out more about WISE.
Are you ready to Apply?
Please submit a current resume and cover letter that demonstrates how you meet the above-specified requirements.
If you have accessibility requirements or require an adjustment to participate in our recruitment and selection process, please contact our recruitment team at ***************@wiseemployment.com.au
Here at WISE Employment, we actively encourage and welcome candidates from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, candidates with a disability, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander candidates.
