Employment Advisor
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full Time - 37 hours per week
Salary: Circa £26,049 per annum
Location: Carlisle/Workington
About the Employer: Our client is a long established environmental and community charity with over 30 years of experience creating greener, healthier and more resilient places across the region. Their mission centres on Creating Better Places, Improving People's Prospects, and Promoting Greener Living, helping communities thrive no matter the challenges they face.
They deliver hundreds of locally led projects each year, including initiatives that support young people and adults into education, training and employment, helping them overcome barriers, build life skills, and reach their full potential.
About You and The Role: Join this charity's dynamic Employment Team as a dedicated Employment Advisor, supporting individuals 1:1 on their journey into work, developing action plans, building skills, and driving positive outcomes in a fast-paced, community-focused environment.
Working as a member of the Employment Team you will engage on a 1:1 basis with employment programme participants, establishing and maintaining excellent relationships to understand and meet their individual needs. You will develop personal action plans which enable movement of these people towards and into further sustainable employment. You will work in a friendly, busy employment team environment to ensure programme performance targets are consistently achieved to meet requirements of the allocated contract.
They want someone like you with the confidence to positively engage and motivate people from a wide range of backgrounds. In your role you will work closely with the local community and employers, supporting referrals onto the programme and identifying employment opportunities. You will enable participants to develop valuable work based skills and gain knowledge. Your role will require you to be supportive and understanding, be able to deal with any issues that may arise confidently. You will have strong interpersonal skills and be able to adapt them pending on what you are dealing with, communicating at different levels as key in this role.
Closing Date: Thursday 30th April 2026. Please note, if a high volume of applications is received, the employer may close the role early, therefore an early application is recommended.
This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure endorsed by the Disclosure and Barring Service.
As a Disability Confident employer they offer a guaranteed interview to applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
The employer ensures a safe environment for adults, children and young people to participate in any activity or service they organise. They are committed to creating a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk. Their safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring a consistent and comprehensive process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure all the people they appoint are suitable to work with children, young people and adults.
This role is NOT eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship; applicants must have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK.
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