Job Advert Do you have experience of employer engagement? Have you worked with employers to secure job outcomes for people as part of an education programme or welfare to work contract? Or perhaps you have a background in sales, marketing or recruitment? If you can develop partnerships with large organisations, then please do keep on reading. Mencap have an exciting opportunity for an Employment Relationship Manager to join our established Lifestyles and Work division. The role is a full time (37.5 hrs per week) permanent contact. and will be home based but will be required to travel to our delivery sites across our 3 clusters, London, West Midlands and Northamptonshire. Our preference is that you will live in or near London (as a large amount of the work will be there) or one of the cluster areas. Do you have the skills to be our next Employment Relationship Manager? - You will be responsible for developing and maintaining strategic relationships with employers that enable Mencap to support people with a learning disability into paid work. - You will work collaboratively with the Head of Development to produce an employer engagement strategy and will take responsibility for data capture and reporting related to employers and job outcomes. - We are looking for someone who can communicate confidently and effectively at all levels, and who can deliver high quality awareness sessions and support employers to develop an understanding of how to employ people with a learning disability. - You will have strong experience in collecting, recording and analysing data, and producing reports in accordance with the employers' requests and in a way that provides meaningful data for Mencap to use to inform future work. Whilst there is no direct line management responsibility the successful Employment Relationship Manager will work with employment teams across the division, to ensure a consistently high standard of engagement with employers at a local level is maintained across all Mencap’s work. Please see the Job Description for a more extensive list of responsibilities, experiences and key skills required for this role. If you feel that this role is your next career move, please apply with a full and up to date CV. You can also call us for an informal chat on 01733 246699. This role will close for shortlisting on Sunday 4th February and interviews will take place via Microsoft Teams w/c 12th February. Job ID: 30885 Benefits As well as knowing that what we do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, you will receive fair pay and have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits as one of our employees. - 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing with long service plus the ability to buy up to another 10 days via our HolidayPlus scheme - Service related sick pay when 6 month probation is completed - Eligibility to join Mencap Pension Plan where Mencap matches contributions up to 5% on a salary sacrifice basis meaning NI savings. If you don’t join the Plan you start, you will be auto-enrolled after three months with us. - Membership of Mencap Pension Plan to include up to 3 times salary death in service live cover AND Income Protection of 50% salary to be triggered at 26 weeks of long term sickness - Discounts and cashback from 3% to 30% at high street shops including major super markets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via Mencap Extras - Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc. - Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support *T&C's apply based on contract About Mencap We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist. We want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential. Our work includes; - providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose - providing advice through our help lines and web sites