Esa

ricky9

ADVISOR Salary:£17800 per annum
Job type:Permanent
Company: Adecco Group Contact: Tracy Bates
Ref: Totaljobs/JL -
Advisor Job ID: 54877506
We are looking to recruit an Advisor to work with a company that support the unemployed back into work. The role will involve working with candidates on ESA Benefit - basically customers who have a medical condition/issue meaning they are job ready but have issues also and need support to get work and become suitable for work, these issues could include drugs/alcohol/medical/disability.

The successful candidate must have experience in a similar role; need to be confident to contact employers and source positions, it can be very challenging and will be KPI'd to 6 jobs per month.

miduck

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Two4Tuesday

ricky9 wrote: »

ADVISOR Salary:£17800 per annum
Job type:Permanent
Company: Adecco Group Contact: Tracy Bates
Ref: Totaljobs/JL -
Advisor Job ID: 54877506
We are looking to recruit an Advisor to work with a company that support the unemployed back into work. The role will involve working with candidates on ESA Benefit - basically customers who have a medical condition/issue meaning they are job ready but have issues also and need support to get work and become suitable for work, these issues could include drugs/alcohol/medical/disability.

The successful candidate must have experience in a similar role; need to be confident to contact employers and source positions, it can be very challenging and will be KPI'd to 6 jobs per month.

It looks like from the advert that an advisor is expected to get 6 claimants from ESA into work every month or else be deemed to miss their targets...

Given that claimants on ESA cannot be mandated to seek work that seems unreasonable. If all advisors at this company have the same KPIs, I can understand why they feel under pressure to threaten ESA claimants with false sanctions and treat them like JSA claimants.

rogerblack

It depends.
ESA is NOT GRANTED BECAUSE OF INABILITY TO WORK it is granted because people pass the legal tests as applied by the DWP, and people have applied for it. (or been converted).

If the advisor in question is able to bring in a full range of support to help claimants into work, including fast-tracking applications to access-to-work - to get things setup for a claimant moving into work, skills improvements, helping the claimant access treatment ... then I could see it being possible, and desirable. (not mandating the claimant into any treatment)

As long as they are allowed to determine that some people are simply unable to work in the near future.

The other side is that vulnerable people who are not capable of work will be bullied into attempting it, or face sanctions. Which will then lead to problems resuming a claim for ESA, as well as health implications.

It's not the rules.
It's how they're applied, and what targets are set.

miduck

Two4Tuesday wrote: »

It looks like from the advert that an advisor is expected to get 6 claimants from ESA into work every month or else be deemed to miss their targets...

Given that claimants on ESA cannot be mandated to seek work that seems unreasonable. If all advisors at this company have the same KPIs, I can understand why they feel under pressure to threaten ESA claimants with false sanctions and treat them like JSA claimants.

Some individuals in the WRAG are capable of work with the right support. The KPI figure means nothing without context - if the advisor only has six clients, then it would be logical that the advisor may place undue pressure on them to find work. If the advisor has sixty clients, then 1 in 10 seems a reasonable figure.

I am surprised at the salary offered for this position, another provider pays £10,000 more than that!