Employment Advisor

Employment Advisor

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria 
Salary: £26,280.80 – £27,864.20 per annum pro rata
Advertising End Date: 10th June 2026
Interview Date: 6th June 2026 (In person)
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 21 hours per week. 

Employment Advisor – Benefits:

In addition to making a positive difference to people’s lives, Right2Work offers competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) increasing with long service. 
• Pension contributions into NEST Scheme on a salary sacrifice basis meaning NI savings
• Private Health Care scheme funded by Right2work.
• Laptop and smart phone to assist you in your job
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Award scheme and recognition at every 5 years 
• Access to foundation and bespoke training and development

About Right2work

Right2Work has demonstrated a long track record of delivering employment outcomes to disabled and disadvantaged people since 1997.

Every employee wants a purposeful job – to do something meaningful. At Right2work, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague and leader.

In return for your hard work and passion, we can give you real meaning and purpose in your work.

We are currently looking to recruit an Employment Advisor to join our Employment team, you will be working on the Connect to Work programme supporting people back into the workplace.

About You:

We are looking for extraordinary talent to join our team. We are looking for a range of skills, including organisation, self-motivation, and determination to enable people to succeed. 

Your role will be to deliver support and targeted interventions to a range of disadvantaged jobseekers across the Barrow in Furness, Kendal and South Lakes area. 

This exciting opportunity will provide you with a varied and interesting role to work as part of an award – winning team, and will give you job satisfaction that most other work cannot. 

The candidate will be required to assist individual’s with barriers into work. You will be working with adults who are currently unemployed to identify appropriate employment opportunities and support them back into work.

Duties will include:

• Providing job coaching based in Barrow and surrounding area to work on the Connect to Work programme.
• Support learners with the completion of tasks, observations, creating prompts, checklists, job analysis, setting achievable targets, supporting communication skills, supporting with interview skills and travel training where appropriate. 
• Supporting learners to progress with their independence and progress into paid work.
• Supporting people in paid work roles who require reasonable adjustments.
• Update and maintain accurate learner records/ support notes required by our delivery partner.
• Undertake reviews, progression reports and assessments. 
• Liaising with additional support networks such as, CtW partners, careers advisors, adult social workers, parents/guardians and families where appropriate.

As part of your role you will support the team to maintain support notes and records, track progress, complete assessments, to set objectives and record outcomes.

An Enhanced DBS will be required for each successful candidate (Paid for by Right2work, T&Cs apply)

If this sounds like the job for you, we would love to hear from you, click on ‘APPLY’ today forwarding a recent copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance.

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