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Restart Employment Advisor
| Posting date: | 05 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,200 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 December 2025 |
| Location: | Margate, Kent |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Forward Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 441 |
Summary
About The Role
We’re looking for a driven and people-focused Restart Employment Advisor to join our team in Margate. In this rewarding, office-based role, you’ll support learners, job seekers and clients to prepare for the world of work, helping them build confidence, develop employability skills, and achieve lasting success.
What you’ll do:
Build strong, professional relationships across teams and with participants
Identify individual needs, goals and barriers to employment
Deliver high-quality, end-to-end information, advice and guidance (aligned to Matrix and Gatsby Standards)
Coach individuals and groups to boost confidence, emotional intelligence and job-readiness
Help create professional CVs, cover letters and job applications
Prepare learners for interviews and match them to suitable job or apprenticeship opportunities
Manage and motivate a caseload, ensuring each participant achieves sustainable employment
Maintain accurate digital records, action plans and performance reports
Support employability events, workshops and job fairs
Work to clear KPIs and performance targets
What we’re looking for:
Strong administration and organisational skills, be able to manage a busy caseload efficiently
Background in recruitment, sales, or other target-driven environments
Excellent communication and coaching skills with a passion for helping others succeed
Confident IT user with solid attention to detail
Professional, proactive and resilient under pressure
You’ll be part of a supportive and passionate Margate-based team that celebrates success and helps individuals reach their full potential. This is your chance to make a real impact while developing your own professional career in a dynamic, purpose-led environment.
Please see attached Job Description for full details
About Us
We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits -
Flexible working
Training and development opportunities
Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
Season Ticket Loan Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Crisis Loan Scheme
Electric Car Scheme
3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
Access to Blue Light Card
25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
Diversity at Forward Trust
The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.
When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.
To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.
Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.
If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.
We’re looking for a driven and people-focused Restart Employment Advisor to join our team in Margate. In this rewarding, office-based role, you’ll support learners, job seekers and clients to prepare for the world of work, helping them build confidence, develop employability skills, and achieve lasting success.
What you’ll do:
Build strong, professional relationships across teams and with participants
Identify individual needs, goals and barriers to employment
Deliver high-quality, end-to-end information, advice and guidance (aligned to Matrix and Gatsby Standards)
Coach individuals and groups to boost confidence, emotional intelligence and job-readiness
Help create professional CVs, cover letters and job applications
Prepare learners for interviews and match them to suitable job or apprenticeship opportunities
Manage and motivate a caseload, ensuring each participant achieves sustainable employment
Maintain accurate digital records, action plans and performance reports
Support employability events, workshops and job fairs
Work to clear KPIs and performance targets
What we’re looking for:
Strong administration and organisational skills, be able to manage a busy caseload efficiently
Background in recruitment, sales, or other target-driven environments
Excellent communication and coaching skills with a passion for helping others succeed
Confident IT user with solid attention to detail
Professional, proactive and resilient under pressure
You’ll be part of a supportive and passionate Margate-based team that celebrates success and helps individuals reach their full potential. This is your chance to make a real impact while developing your own professional career in a dynamic, purpose-led environment.
Please see attached Job Description for full details
About Us
We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits -
Flexible working
Training and development opportunities
Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
Season Ticket Loan Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Crisis Loan Scheme
Electric Car Scheme
3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
Access to Blue Light Card
25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
Diversity at Forward Trust
The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.
When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.
To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.
Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.
If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.
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About Disability Confident
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