Employment Advisor - Accrington
18 hours ago
Accrington
Get Set for Your First Big Impact: Join Us as an Employment Advisor TL;DR: Location: BB5 1PJ Contract: FT 35hrs PW M-F Salary: £26,500 - £29,000 Role Purpose: You’ll coach and motivate people facing barriers to work, building their confidence and skills to secure and sustain employment while hitting performance targets. Success in this role looks like: Consistently achieving job start and sustainment targets, building strong employer relationships, and seeing participants progress into meaningful, lasting work. Your Role: What You’ll Achieve At Get Set UK, we believe in giving people the tools and support to unlock their potential, and that includes our own team. As an Employment Advisor, you’ll join a high-performing, mission-led team committed to making a measurable difference in communities. This is a hands-on, results-focused role where you’ll coach participants individually, prepare them for opportunities, and work closely with employers to create sustainable job outcomes. Here’s how you’ll make an impact: Strategic Direction • Manage your caseload to achieve monthly job start and sustainment targets., • Drive participants into employment through tailored coaching, CV support, job search guidance, and interview preparation., • Build trust and rapport with diverse participants, coaching them through challenges and change., • Maintain accurate records, comply with safeguarding and programme processes., • Collaborate with partners and employers to create opportunities and expand our reach. Who You Are You might already work in employment support or recruitment, but you could also come from retail, hospitality, customer service, or any sector where you’ve led teams, solved problems, and delivered results. What matters most is that you’ve shown leadership, accountability, and a track record of achieving goals. You’re great at motivating others, building relationships, and keeping organised while delivering on targets. You understand that our customers expect us to model employability, so you lead by example. Specifically, you bring: * Experience taking responsibility for performance or team success (e.g., supervising staff, managing a section or store, driving sales or service outcomes). * Strong coaching and motivational skills - you inspire confidence and action. * Great organisational skills - you manage workloads effectively and meet deadlines. * Excellent communication - you engage participants, employers, and stakeholders with ease. * Resilience and adaptability - you navigate challenges with a solutions mindset. * Knowledge of local labour markets or employer engagement experience (desirable but not essential). You Share Our Values We live our values every day, in every role: • Be Ambitious: We set high standards for ourselves and those we support., • Be Inspiring: We motivate and lead by example., • Be Proud: We take ownership and celebrate our success, • Be Considerate : We care about people and act with integrity. Get Set for More: Our Benefits You’ll benefit from a supportive , progressive environment where learning is part of every role. • Immediate access to wellbeing tools (GP, counselling, Headspace), • Enhanced healthcare and lifestyle rewards with service, • Discounts, pension scheme, and salary sacrifice options, • Structured development through our Your Career, Your Journey framework, • We reserve the right to close this advert early, so apply soon to avoid disappointment., • We’re a Disability Confident Employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, just let us know, we’re committed to supporting you., • This role is subject to our safeguarding and vetting process. If you’re excited by this opportunity and believe you can make a difference, apply and help us shape futures…starting with yours! See the Get Set story here: Learn more about working at Get Set here: