Employment Specialist
| Posting date: | 25 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £30,000 to £32,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 October 2025 |
| Location: | Dereham, Norfolk |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Seetec |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 319941 |
Summary
Are you passionate about working with people and being part of their journey to find employment? If yes, then this could be the ideal role for you as we’re recruiting an Employment Specialist to join our amazing team!
The role of the Employment Specialist is to achieve delivery targets by working with customers to identify employment opportunities and support them into sustainable employment. Employment Specialist’s work with clients (managing a caseload) who have a disability and/or health support needs, to assist them in securing sustainable paid employment providing person-centred advice and guidance to clients, whilst building positive relationships with referral partners and relevant local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.
Our ideal candidate will have knowledge or experience of employer needs and employer engagement and experience of working in a target driven environment. A good working knowledge of the local labour market in the specified locations. Experience of working with people with multiple and complex needs in particular those with learning disabilities.
We are, however, open to various backgrounds and experiences as we are able to provide superb on-the-job training. We’re not looking for someone who ticks every box, just so long as you have an engaging personality, are comfortable working with a diverse group of people, and can provide a warm and welcoming experience to help our participants in their first steps back into employment.
Be proud to help our communities build back better, to ensure no one is left behind.
In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we’re offering a competitive salary range £30,000 to £32,000 p.a. (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:
25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy additional days)
2 Volunteer Days
Company Pension Scheme - 5% Employee 5% Employer
Health Insurance Allowance
Employer Paid Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
Annual Pay Review
Enhanced Maternity/Adoption and Paternity Pay Arrangements
Free access to BenefitHub – an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tax Saver Commuter Tickets
Refer a Friend Scheme
Interested? There’s an easy to apply route below to upload your CV!
If you need any further information, talk to our experienced Internal Recruitment Team on 01702 208282 .
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: Dereham
Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 8.30 am to 5pm, Friday 8.30 am to 4.30pm
Closing Date: 9 October 2025
Key Responsibilities
Progressively manage a caseload of referred customers with a disability and/or health support needs
Learning disability, health support needs awareness and self-development/knowledge to provide specialist support to customer group
Undertake in-depth assessments using a suite of tools to fully understand a customer’s circumstances, preferences and holistic barriers to progression to employment
Co-produce personalised tailored Action Plans featuring SMART targeting to enable positive and timely progression.
Use an integration framework of local specialist services to obtain support to address specific issues
Use social prescribing to develop and improve customer circumstances (e.g. healthy eating classes, smoking cessation and social groups).
Work with multiple agencies to develop holistic approaches to support customers. With customer consent undertake case conferences with external agencies to jointly optimise support packages.
Undertaking direct marketing to employers using digital and electronic formats e.g. email, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.
Identify the specific recruitment needs of each employer and undertake tailored pre-screens and group assessments.
Co-produce effective in-work support plans with participants and employers, based on an assessment of need, providing practical support to ensure a smooth transition into work. When appropriate facilitate job carving opportunities.
Develop an understanding of specialist signposting services in the local area/region, building knowledge in areas such as specific disabilities, housing, benefits etc.
Work from local hubs and community outreach locations (sometimes alongside other services e.g. housing, health and primary care centres) to increase service accessibility.
Skills and Experience
Essential
A good working knowledge of the local labour market in the specified geographical locations
Experience of working with people with multiple and complex needs in particular those with learning disabilities.
Fully IT literate in using a range of Microsoft Office programmes to include 365 products and modern digital technologies, i.e. Microsoft Teams
Desirable
Knowledge of the employability industry
Understanding of Supported employment opportunities and associated frameworks
Experience of working with people in ‘advice & guidance’ environments
Full driving license
The role of the Employment Specialist is to achieve delivery targets by working with customers to identify employment opportunities and support them into sustainable employment. Employment Specialist’s work with clients (managing a caseload) who have a disability and/or health support needs, to assist them in securing sustainable paid employment providing person-centred advice and guidance to clients, whilst building positive relationships with referral partners and relevant local employers to enable clients to move into suitable employment.
Our ideal candidate will have knowledge or experience of employer needs and employer engagement and experience of working in a target driven environment. A good working knowledge of the local labour market in the specified locations. Experience of working with people with multiple and complex needs in particular those with learning disabilities.
We are, however, open to various backgrounds and experiences as we are able to provide superb on-the-job training. We’re not looking for someone who ticks every box, just so long as you have an engaging personality, are comfortable working with a diverse group of people, and can provide a warm and welcoming experience to help our participants in their first steps back into employment.
Be proud to help our communities build back better, to ensure no one is left behind.
In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we’re offering a competitive salary range £30,000 to £32,000 p.a. (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:
25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy additional days)
2 Volunteer Days
Company Pension Scheme - 5% Employee 5% Employer
Health Insurance Allowance
Employer Paid Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
Annual Pay Review
Enhanced Maternity/Adoption and Paternity Pay Arrangements
Free access to BenefitHub – an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tax Saver Commuter Tickets
Refer a Friend Scheme
Interested? There’s an easy to apply route below to upload your CV!
If you need any further information, talk to our experienced Internal Recruitment Team on 01702 208282 .
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: Dereham
Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 8.30 am to 5pm, Friday 8.30 am to 4.30pm
Closing Date: 9 October 2025
Key Responsibilities
Progressively manage a caseload of referred customers with a disability and/or health support needs
Learning disability, health support needs awareness and self-development/knowledge to provide specialist support to customer group
Undertake in-depth assessments using a suite of tools to fully understand a customer’s circumstances, preferences and holistic barriers to progression to employment
Co-produce personalised tailored Action Plans featuring SMART targeting to enable positive and timely progression.
Use an integration framework of local specialist services to obtain support to address specific issues
Use social prescribing to develop and improve customer circumstances (e.g. healthy eating classes, smoking cessation and social groups).
Work with multiple agencies to develop holistic approaches to support customers. With customer consent undertake case conferences with external agencies to jointly optimise support packages.
Undertaking direct marketing to employers using digital and electronic formats e.g. email, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.
Identify the specific recruitment needs of each employer and undertake tailored pre-screens and group assessments.
Co-produce effective in-work support plans with participants and employers, based on an assessment of need, providing practical support to ensure a smooth transition into work. When appropriate facilitate job carving opportunities.
Develop an understanding of specialist signposting services in the local area/region, building knowledge in areas such as specific disabilities, housing, benefits etc.
Work from local hubs and community outreach locations (sometimes alongside other services e.g. housing, health and primary care centres) to increase service accessibility.
Skills and Experience
Essential
A good working knowledge of the local labour market in the specified geographical locations
Experience of working with people with multiple and complex needs in particular those with learning disabilities.
Fully IT literate in using a range of Microsoft Office programmes to include 365 products and modern digital technologies, i.e. Microsoft Teams
Desirable
Knowledge of the employability industry
Understanding of Supported employment opportunities and associated frameworks
Experience of working with people in ‘advice & guidance’ environments
Full driving license
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.