Job Title: Back to Work Employment Advisor
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes
DBS Check Level: Basic
Salary Range: £43,585.15 to £49,070.86
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Advert Closing Date: 01/11/2026
Job Overview
We’re excited to share an opportunity to join Back to Work as a Back to Work Employment Advisor.
Are you passionate about helping people find meaningful work and build brighter futures? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, supportive environment where you can motivate, guide, and empower others to overcome barriers to employment? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
What you’ll be doing:
- Supporting a caseload of unemployed adults by providing tailored, one-to-one advice and motivation to help them into sustainable employment
- Designing personalised action plans through regular reviews to address job readiness, employment barriers, and individual aspirations
- Understand the challenges and identify barriers that can impact employment, and work proactively with jobseekers to address and overcome them.
- Effectively manage sensitive discussions and challenging situations with confidence, professionalism, and sound judgement.
- Ensuring all advice and support complies with legislation, policy and departmental guidelines
- Ensuring accurate and timely recording of progress, activities, and outcomes on departmental systems
- Delivering job search support, including CV and cover letter writing, interview prep, and confidence-building workshops
- Identifying training needs and making appropriate referrals to courses, work placements, or external agencies
- Promoting job opportunities and working collaboratively with the Back to Work Recruitment Team to match jobseekers with vacancies
If this sounds like a change you’re interested in, or you’d like to find out more about how you could be considered for the role, please contact Matt Queree or Claire Eva-Leitch.
Job Description
Competencies
Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
Extraordinary, every day.