Employment & Careers Advisor
Blackpool
£32,061 25 Days Holiday Bank Holidays Local Government Pension Scheme
Full-time, Permanent
Job Description:
Are you passionate about helping people build confidence, develop their careers and find meaningful employment?
We are looking for an Employment & Careers Advisor to support people across Blackpool who may face health, disability or other barriers to employment. You’ll work one-to-one with individuals, helping them identify their strengths, explore career opportunities and take positive, practical steps towards securing sustainable employment.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in employability, careers, recruitment or employment support. We would particularly welcome applications from Employment Advisors, Employability Advisors, Employment Coaches and Recruitment Consultants looking to use their skills in a rewarding, people-focused environment.
The position is fully face to face, working from the office and within the community across Blackpool.
The role involves:

• Managing your own caseload and providing personalised employment and careers support.
• Meeting individuals face to face across Blackpool and building positive, supportive relationships.
• Exploring each person’s skills, experience, career aspirations and barriers to employment.
• Helping people identify realistic career opportunities and routes into work.
• Developing individual action plans with clear, achievable goals.
• Providing practical coaching and guidance to improve confidence, motivation and employability.
• Supporting individuals with job searching and preparing for employment.
• Connecting people with relevant training, workshops, mentoring and specialist support.
• Regularly reviewing progress and adapting support to help individuals achieve positive outcomes.
• Supporting people to move into sustainable employment and build greater independence.
• Maintaining accurate records of customer activity, progress and outcomes.

You’ll need:

• Previous experience within employment support, employability, recruitment, careers or a similar people-focused role.
• Experience supporting people towards employment, or transferable experience working as a Recruitment Consultant.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build trust and rapport with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
• A supportive and empathetic approach, alongside the confidence to motivate and encourage others.
• The ability to understand individual circumstances and identify practical solutions to barriers.
• Strong organisation and caseload management skills.
• The ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Good administrative and record-keeping skills.
• A genuine commitment to helping people achieve their employment and career goals.
• The ability and willingness to work face to face across Blackpool.

Due to the nature of this role, you will be a vehicle driver with access to your own vehicle and will be required to complete an online Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if successful in this role.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you then please submit your CV.

This vacancy is being handled by Aspire Recruitment. Please be aware we receive a high volume of applications and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials.
We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. Should you apply for this role, we will process your data as detailed in our Privacy Policy and by applying for this opportunity I agree that Aspire Recruitment will keep me informed about potential employment opportunities regularly and that I can choose to opt out of receiving information at any time.