CIAG Advisor/ Employment Engagement Lead

Career Connect; Freiston; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexitime

Training provided

Job summary

Career Connect seeks a CIAG Advisor and Employment Engagement Lead to support offenders in custody as they prepare for work on release. The role is split 0.5 FTE for CIAG advising and 0.5 FTE for employer engagement, based at HMP North Sea Camp in the East Midlands.

You will develop links with employers, organise events, and work with stakeholders to create opportunities across prison sites. Travel to other sites in the East Midlands may be required.

Qualifications

• Two years’ experience of working with employers to seek opportunities for people with barriers.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.

Responsibilities

• Support offenders in custody as they prepare for work on release.
• Build links with employers and work with stakeholders to create employment events and activities.
• Network across prison sites to identify local and nationwide opportunities.
• Travel to other sites in the East Midlands as required.

Skills

Confident & proactive

Good communicator

Database skills

Attention to detail

Education

Level 4 or above in IAG

Job description

CIAG Advisor/ Employment Engagement Lead

HMP North Sea Camp

£29,326-£32,624

Permanent, Full Time

This job is a split role. 0.5 FTE CIAG advisor and 0.5 FTE Employer engagement lead. Therefore, we are looking for an enthusiastic and confident Career Information Advice and Guidance (CIAG) Adviser to support offenders in custody as they prepare for work on release. Alongside this, we are looking for an Employer Engagement Lead, who can provide links to employers and work in partnership with stakeholders to create events and activities for offenders in custody to help them prepare for work on release.

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. It also involves networking with employers and organising employment events and activities that are linked to local and nationwide employment opportunities across a number of prison sites within the East Midlands.

There will be some travel to other sites in the East Midlands area occasionally.

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

You'll need to have :

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience of working with employers in the context of seeking opportunities for people facing multiple barriers
• Excellent communication and presentation skills both verbal and written

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 or willing to work towards the qualification.

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.

The closing date for this vacancy is 12 November 2026

Interviews are expected to take place on 18 November via MS Teams