Employment Advisor

Employment Advisor

Location: Kendal, Cumbria 
Salary: £27,782.56 – £29,456.44 per annum pro rata
Advertising End Date: 12th June 2026
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37 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 a proven track record of delivering positive employment outcomes for disabled and disadvantaged individuals since 1997.

At Right2Work, we believe that everyone deserves meaningful and purposeful employment.  We offer a supportive working environment where employees are encouraged to develop personally and professionally, with opportunities to grow as colleagues and future leaders.  

In return for your commitment and dedication, we provide a role that offers genuine purpose and job satisfaction.

We are currently seeking to recruit an Employment Advisor to join our Work and Learn team to motivate candidates who require different strategies to help them into a job with support and empathy.  

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. 

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:

• Supporting referrals from the Job Centre in Kendal, through the Restart programme to progress the candidates employability skills and look at securing paid outcomes. 
• Working with Job Centre Plus to identify adults with barriers to work and support individuals in securing suitable work placements or the next steps in their employment journey.
• Update, monitor and maintain accurate learner records/ support notes.
• Creating and leading learner reviews, complete progression reports and assessments. 
• Liaising with additional support networks such as, careers advisors, adult social workers, parents/guardians and families where appropriate.
• Managing a small team 
• Car driver/owner (preferred).
• Knowledge of Supported Employment Programmes (preferred) 
• Advice and Guidance L3 or willing to work towards this qualification (or relevant experience) 

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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