Restart - Employment Adviser

Seetec; Devon and Torbay; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Bank Holidays

Birthday Day off

Pension - 5% Employee 5% Employer

Healthcare Cash Plan

Annual Pay Review

Refer a Friend Scheme

BenefitHub discounts

Job summary

Seetec is recruiting an Employment Adviser to join our team in Exeter. You will provide advice and support to guide participants to overcome barriers to employment and achieve realistic job goals, managing a caseload and coaching customers to sustainable employment.

The ideal candidate will have strong customer service skills, be target-driven and able to work with initiative under minimal supervision. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits with the Seetec Group.

Qualifications

• Experience in employment support or coaching
• Excellent customer service and communication skills
• Ability to work to targets and manage caseloads
• Motivational, proactive and able to build relationships with participants and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Meet personal performance targets and KPIs.
• Progressively manage a caseload of referred customers to overcome barriers to employment.
• Deliver a positive customer experience and ensure engagement with the programme.
• Provide tailored guidance on job search, CVs and interview preparation.
• Signpost customers to internal self-employment support where relevant.
• Co-produce personalised action plans with SMART targets.
• Maintain accurate records and meet evidence requirements.

Job description

Are you looking for a rewarding role that will allow you to utilise your current skills to influence, support and encourages others to build a future? Are you looking for an opportunity to make a difference to people s lives? If so, then this might be the position for you.

We re currently recruiting for an Employment Adviser to join our amazing team. You will provide advice and support to guide and encourage participants to overcome barriers to employment and achieve realistic job goals.

You’ll manage a caseload of participants, managing their journey to employment, be their coach and mentor and be the principle highly trusted contact to build strong positive relationships, guide, motivate, challenge, encourage and help customers obtain sustainable employment.

Our ideal candidate will have excellent customer service skills, be target driven as well as a motivational adviser. You’ll have a high level of initiative and motivation with the ability to seek out solutions to problems, and be able to work under pressure, without day to day supervision. However, we aren t always looking for someone who ticks every single box we re looking for someone who can provide a first class customer service, driven by our overarching aim to empower lives and improve communities.

This is a rewarding role that will allow you to utilise your current skills to influence, support and encourages others to build a future and will also allow us to become better with your unique experiences.

In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we’re offering a competitive salary range of £26,500 to £29,545 per annum (dependent on experience) with these great additional benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy additional days)
• 2 Volunteer Days
• Pension - 5% Employee 5% Employer
• Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
• Annual Pay Review
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Free access to BenefitHub an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, cycle to work scheme and additional voluntary benefits

There s also the opportunity to progress your career within the Seetec Group.

Seetec Group is an employee-owned organisation and we continually pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the incredible work we do throughout UK and Ireland, and internally with our employee owners. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and each decision we make.

Location

This is an office-based role, Exeter

Hours

37 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 8.30 am to 5pm, Friday 8.30 am to 4.30pm

Closing Date

14 October 2026

Key Responsibilities

• Meet, and strive to exceed, personal performance targets (Key Performance Indicators).
• Progressively manage a caseload of referred customers using a variety of appropriate strategies to help them overcome barriers to gaining employment.
• Deliver a positive experience to new customers, ensuring they engage with you and the programme.
• Achieve the Customer Service Standards required on the programme
• Facilitate a range of assessments with each individual, using a suite of tools, to fully understand a customer s personal circumstances, ambitions and goals.
• Where required, provide appropriate advice and guidance on the basics of selfemployment and signpost customers to internal self-employment specialist that can further support customers in respect to self-employment.
• Co-produce personalised tailored Action Plans featuring SMART targeting to enable positive and timely progression.
• Provide tailored support in all aspects of job-search and interview preparation to ensure that customers are matched to the right job that enables them to sustain employment.
• Where required, provide appropriate training/guidance to customers to help them master digital technologies, for them to engage in guided self-service learning materials and online job vacancies.
• Ensure all relevant evidence requirements are met to verify job starts.
• Fully understand the local labour market, to source suitable job opportunities.
• Undertake direct marketing to employers using digital media e.g., email, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.
• Market specific customers to employers.
• Identify the specific recruitment needs of employers and undertake tailored prescreens and group assessments.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders to maximise job opportunities, i.e., federation of small businesses, chamber of commerce, JCP partnership managers
• Maintain hard copy and system-held customer records to the required compliance and quality standards.
• Develop an understanding of specialist signposting services in the local area/region, building knowledge in areas such as specific disabilities, housing, benefits etc. Knowledge to be applied where appropriate during caseload management.
• Proactively participate in continuous improvement activities to ensure that the service continues to deliver excellent customer service
• Acts as an employee owner always considering the best interests of the company, shareholders and