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Job Description

Overview

The London Borough of Harrow is seeking a motivated and community-focused Skills and Job Broker to play a key role in delivering the Council’s corporate objective of supporting residents to realise their career ambitions. The postholder will provide tailored careers and vocational advice and guidance to Harrow residents, helping them to identify suitable pathways into employment, education, or training. This will include assessing individual needs, signposting to appropriate functional skills and IT training where required, and offering ongoing, practical employment-related support to improve job readiness and long-term outcomes.

Working closely with local employers, training providers, and internal services, the Skills and Job Broker will lead on delivering a responsive job brokerage service that connects workless residents with sustainable employment and apprenticeship opportunities. The role will involve building and maintaining strong partnerships with businesses across the borough to identify vacancies, promote inclusive recruitment practices, and ensure that local residents can access emerging opportunities. The successful candidate will be proactive in engaging residents who face barriers to employment, providing encouragement and tailored interventions to support their progression into work.

This is an opportunity to make a tangible difference within the local community by helping individuals overcome challenges, develop their skills, and secure meaningful employment, while also supporting local employers to meet their workforce needs.

About You

The successful candidate will have:

Ability to manage case load of varied ability clients into work and training

Ability to communicate with local businesses in person, phone and online to support recruitment and business growth

Ability to lead employment related workshops, and adapt content according to needs of client group

Must be able to take responsibility for keeping up to date with London Labour market and Harrow’s economy

Must work to Matrix information, advice and guidance quality standards and undertake training where required

Ability to work to targets, reporting timetables and comply with contract requirements and record keeping

Experienced in demonstrating interpersonal skills with ability to communicate effectively in written and spoken English in a busy workplace. Confident numeracy skills

Experienced in using Microsoft word, excel, power point skills in a pressured environment. Be able to create databases, create project reports and analyse & research data on internet

Related Documents

For more information, please refer to the Role Profile/Selection Criteria

About us

Harrow Council is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit with a range of cultures, religions and opinions that come together to produce high achieving schools and a close and friendly community. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.

Other information

Support for candidates visit:Harrow.gov.uk Our behavioural indicators roles below G11 and above G11 Here at Harrow Council, the vision is one of 'Working together to make a difference for Harrow' Please click here to view Harrow Council's benefits

Important Note

To deliver our commitment to equality of opportunity in service provision, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services the Council delivers. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs at the London Borough of Harrow. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender, reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, or maternity unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification applies. As such, we value diversity and welcome applications from all backgrounds. For further information, please read our equality statement.

As a disability-confident employer, we are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes reasonably adjusting the recruitment process for those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. For further information, please contact us at [email protected]

London Borough of Harrow is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Harrow operates stringent, safer recruitment procedures.

Due to the high number of applications received for some posts, we may close vacancies before the stated closing date if sufficient applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

Harrow redeployees will be given priority consideration.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, any your data protection rights, can be found by visiting www.cifas.org.uk/fpn