Restart Employment Advisor

Location: Margate

Salary: £25,200 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing Date: 24^th November 2025

We’re looking for a driven and people-focused Restart Employment Advisor to join our team in Margate. In this rewarding, office-based role, you’ll support learners, job seekers and clients to prepare for the world of work, helping them build confidence, develop employability skills, and achieve lasting success.

What you’ll do:

• Build strong, professional relationships across teams and with participants
• Identify individual needs, goals and barriers to employment
• Deliver high-quality, end-to-end information, advice and guidance (aligned to Matrix and Gatsby Standards)
• Coach individuals and groups to boost confidence, emotional intelligence and job-readiness
• Help create professional CVs, cover letters and job applications
• Prepare learners for interviews and match them to suitable job or apprenticeship opportunities
• Manage and motivate a caseload, ensuring each participant achieves sustainable employment
• Maintain accurate digital records, action plans and performance reports
• Support employability events, workshops and job fairs
• Work to clear KPIs and performance targets

What we’re looking for:

• Strong administration and organisational skills, be able to manage a busy caseload efficiently
• Background in recruitment, sales, or other target-driven environments
• Excellent communication and coaching skills with a passion for helping others succeed
• Confident IT user with solid attention to detail
• Professional, proactive and resilient under pressure

You’ll be part of a supportive and passionate Margate-based team that celebrates success and helps individuals reach their full potential. This is your chance to make a real impact while developing your own professional career in a dynamic, purpose-led environment.

About Us

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits:

• Flexible working
• Training and development opportunities
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays 
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter 
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary) 
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

Diversity at Forward Trust

The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/441/restart-employment-advisor.html

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