Careers Advisor

Career Connect; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in the East Midlands is looking for an enthusiastic CIAG Adviser to work with offenders, helping them regain employment opportunities on release. Candidates should have experience in engaging with disadvantaged groups and possess strong communication and detail-oriented skills. This full-time role offers competitive salary, flexitime, and comprehensive training.

Benefits

Flexi time

Perkbox (Multiple benefits)

Cycle scheme and Car Lease scheme

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Flu Jabs / Glasses

Employee Assistance Programme

Generous Sick Pay

Staff Development

Qualifications

• Experience of working with offenders or other disadvantaged people.
• Ability to connect with people to help them progress.
• Comfortable working on databases.

Responsibilities

• Engage offenders in learning, training, and employment opportunities.
• Help individuals prepare for work on release.
• Embrace quality and compliance requirements.

Skills

Confident and proactive

Good communicator

Strong attention to detail

Education

Level 4 or above in IAG

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident Career Information Advice and Guidance (CIAG) Adviser working with offenders in custody to help them prepare for work on release. If you have experience of working with offenders or other disadvantaged people and you want to make a difference we would love to hear from you.

The job involves working with people serving custodial sentences to engage them in learning, training and employment opportunities so they’re ready to start a new life on release and break the cycle of reoffending.

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to people and communities.

You’ll need to be :

• confident and proactive
• a good communicator with a non-judgemental approach
• comfortable working on databases and have a strong attention to detail

We are especially looking for applicants who have experience of helping offenders or other vulnerable groups to move forward in their lives. If you’re someone who can really connect with people to help them to progress work in a prison environment embrace the quality and compliance requirements of the contract and have the skills to work towards individual targets we’d love to hear from you.

We’ll give you all the training you need to do the job and to get established in the new role. Our teams are always supportive and friendly towards new starters to help them to settle into the job. We are particularly interested in applicants who hold a Level 4 or above in IAG.

The contract requires a 37.5h working week and we also offer flexitime so when we ask our staff to do extra we always make sure they’ve got those hours to take back another time. It’s a great benefit of working for Career Connect.

A full job description can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

Are you ready to join a high-performing team and make a contribution to changing lives?

If you would like an informal discussion regarding the vacancy please contact :

The closing date for this vacancy is 07-Nov-2025

Interviews are expected to take place on 12-Nov-2025 via MS Teams

The Company

It’s an exciting time to join Career Connect. Over the last year we’ve made a positive impact to the lives of more than 90,000 people across the country.

Our vision is for a society where every individual realises their full potential. Our mission is to drive social mobility by enabling more people to access and succeed in education, training and employment.

We work in schools in the community and right across the criminal justice sector delivering impartial person-centred careers and transition support that changes lives. We also train those who work in advice and guidance roles helping them to help others.

We’re continuing to increase our impact and reach changing even more peoples futures for the better. We take an innovative approach to the services we provide and were passionate about using feedback from those we support to shape what we do.

Our research amplifies the voices of those we support and helps inform positive change - for all our futures.

Benefits

• Flexi time
• Perkbox (Multiple benefits)
• Cycle scheme and Car Lease scheme
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Flu Jabs / Glasses
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Generous Sick Pay
• Staff Development

We are committed to safeguarding young people and vulnerable adults and expect our staff to share this commitment. All applicants are subject to DBS and staff who work in custody also have a prison clearance process.

We promote equality and diversity across all that we do and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Part-time workers are always welcome. Inclusion and diversity are a significant feature of our charitys values cutting across everything that we do.

As a Disability Confident Leader we are keen to hear from applicants with disabilities. Around a quarter of our workforce have a disability. Please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process.

We are proud to be recognised as an Investor in Diversity and one of the Top 10 Most Inclusive Workplaces with the National Centre for Diversity.

Key Skills

• Channel Marketing
• Accounting
• Tally
• CSS
• Corporate Risk Management
• Hibernate
• Brokerage

Employment Type: Full‑Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Monthly Salary: 26,485 - 30,012