Position Summary
Cambrian College’s Employment Options requires an Employment Consultant on a full-time basis. This position’s main location is the Barrydowne Campus but will require travel between Employment Options sites.
Note: Internal candidates, as defined by the Full-Time Support Staff Collective Agreement, will be given first consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide information and referral, case management, employment planning and preparation, and job placement to Employment Options clients daily.
- Conduct intake interviews to determine client eligibility and needs; conduct assessments of clients eligible for Employment Options assisted service by identifying and documenting clients’ skills, interests, abilities, barriers, educational background, and work experience.
- Complete all appropriate file documentation which may include items such as: application form, service plan agreement, releases of information, and obtains necessary identification.
- Develop a service plan that clarifies vocational goals, barriers to employment and describes short-term and long-term steps required to overcome barriers and achieve goals. Provide on-going career direction to clients, making appropriate referrals to community services or additional Employment Ontario services as required. Monitor client progress and makes appropriate adjustments to the service plan.
- Research, develop and deliver workshops on topics as a result of the assessment process and the ongoing needs of the client as identified in the career development plan and throughout Employment Options.
- Identify and negotiate career exploration opportunities such as job shadowing, voluntarism, job trials, and on-the-job training placements. Negotiate a subsidy reimbursement rate with employers and payment schedule within prescribed program guidelines. Appraise work sites for safety and quality of training.
- Develop skills training plan in collaboration with training employer, and maintain required documentation.
- Monitor client performance during job search and placement; proposes and implements appropriate problem solving, as required.
- Maintain client-tracking systems, records the activities of individual clients and ensures the timely completion and accuracy of required documentation including contracts, payroll information, and statistics. Conduct 1, 3, 6, and 12-month client follow-up.
- Liaise with employers, government agencies, a variety of community, social and educational agencies; participate on committees where community planning needs and issues regarding training and employment are being addressed; make presentations to community groups and agencies as required.
Qualifications
Required:
- Minimum of a two-year postsecondary diploma (a copy of educational documents must be submitted with application *** education completed outside of Canada, applicants are required to submit a WES or ICAS with their application).
- Minimum of three years of work experience in career and employment guidance and counselling, along with experience in employment workshop delivery, and job placement.
- Must have worked in an environment where analysis and assessment of client needs and barriers was required.
- Travel is required to employer job sites to monitor clients; therefore, a valid Ontario Driver’s Licence and reliable transportation are essential.
- Self-directed individual with the ability to balance multiple tasks with frequent interruptions.
- Effective communication skills, good judgment, the ability to problem solve.
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft software such as Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Commitment to working within a team environment.
Additional Assets/Preferred:
- Experience working within the college system.
Required Information
To be considered, candidates must provide the following as an attachment:
- Educational documents
- WES/ICAS Equivalence if degrees/diplomas are from a Non-Canadian University
Cambrian College offers the following benefits to full-time Support Staff employees:
Vacation Days
- 15 Vacation Days (after one year of continuous service)
Mandatory Benefits
- Basic Life Insurance
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- Extended Health Care
- Dental Care
- Vision Care
- Hearing Care
- Pension Plan
Optional Health Care Benefits
College Employees Can Purchase The Following Benefit Plans
- Supplementary Life Insurance
- Employee Optional Life Insurance
- Dependent Life Insurance
- Spousal Optional Life Insurance
- Critical Illness
CAAT Pension Plan
Our employee benefit plan package includes a defined benefit pension to help you create a secure future. The CAAT Penion Plan provides you with a predictable lifetime retirement income, survivor benefits, early retirement options, and more without the stress of making investment decisions.
CAAT makes it easy for you to build stable, secure retirement income while you work.
Explore a career choice with a pension at
http://www.caatpension.ca/dbprime-pensions-for-talent
Employee Perks
- Education and Technology Loan Plan
- Tuition Subsidy Program
- Higher Education Funding
- Technology Loan Plan
- Family Tuition Bursary Program
- Discounted Access to Fitness Facility/Fitness Classes
We also offer have a variety of employee discounts available at retailers
01
Do you have a minimum of a two-year postsecondary diploma?
02
If yes, in what discipline is your diploma or equivalency?
03
Do have a minimum of three years of work experience in career and employment guidance and counselling, along with experience in employment workshop delivery, and job placement?
04
Do you a valid Ontario Driver’s License and reliable transportation?
05
What is your proficiency in Microsoft software such as Word, Excel and Outlook?
- Expert
- Advanced
- Intermediate
- Novice
- Fundamental Awareness
- No experience or exposure
06
Do you have experience working within the college system?
Required Question
