Employment Consultant

The Role

Based at Sureway’s Parkes office, full time permanent role.

Your ability to have a conversation easily enables you to connect with people to change lives and build stronger communities. Your confidence, patience, adaptability and problem-solving approach will set you up for success. In this job you will work with a broader team from other sites to support people with disabilities to get into work.

Leverage your experience to link with employers and local businesses where you can source vacancies and support job seekers once they get work.

Being new to the employment or disability industry is not a problem. If you are driven and have a positive attitude, the ability to manage your workload / priorities, confidence with a variety of customer relationships, and solid administration skills you can succeed with us.  

Duties

• Assist clients to set goals for employment including identifying smaller steps along the journey.
• Work with employers to help them understand what to expect when hiring someone with disability (e.g. better attendance, great commitment, etc)
• Help clients into work, and support employers and clients to sustain it
• Collaborate with your teammates.
• Maintain accurate records.

Benefits

• Comprehensive onboarding and staff development program
• Laptops for all employees
• Values based reward program. 
• Performance-based bonuses 
• Birthday leave
• Additional week of leave after 3 years of service

Organisation Details

Sureway Employment and Training lead the industry in Workforce Australia Employment Services and Disability Employment Services. We also extend to the delivery of training and health supports. Sureway deliver innovative programs to job seekers, employers and learners across NSW, VIC, ACT and SA. Our growing suite of services assists people to achieve their goals and aspirations in life.

This position requires the successful applicant to undertake a National Police Check and relevant state-based screens. Applicants also must have the right to work in Australia.

Submit a cover letter and current resume as soon as possible.  Applications are being considered as they are submitted.

We encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders, people with disability, and people from a culturally diverse background to apply