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Training Adviser

Job details
Posting date: 09 January 2026
Salary: £28,142 to £31,022 per year
Additional salary information: 26 days annual leave plus public holidays, flexi-time, Local Government Pension Scheme inc life cover
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 26 January 2026
Location: Pembrokeshire, Wales
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Gwaith yn yr Arfaeth / Futureworks
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: REQAA6914

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Summary

Training Adviser – fixed term to 31/03/2027 (annual extension subject to funding from Welsh Government)

Futureworks delivers skills and employment programmes in Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion, with delivery centres in Milford Haven, Haverfordwest, Cardigan and Pembroke Dock. We are recruiting a Training Adviser to join our team to deliver our Jobs Growth Wales+ programme and support our work with Schools. The role includes the delivery of qualifications in wellbeing, life skills and employability.

You will be someone who wants to make a real difference to a young person's life. You will work mostly with learners aged 14-19 years and deliver positive and engaging learning sessions, supporting young people to be the best they can be. The programme aims to provide a mixture of universal and targeted work, delivering a range of positive activities with personal, social and political development embedded in the programme.

You will create an empowering, non-judgemental, positive and welcoming atmosphere within Futureworks, emphasising self-determination and assisting young people to make plans and decisions and to accept responsibility.

You will support young people by giving them a fresh start and an opportunity to change their perspective - to see life differently. You'll inspire them to believe in themselves, maybe for the first time. You'll help them overcome barriers to learning and give access to opportunities they would never have thought of before.

You will be working with some vulnerable young people who face social, domestic and emotional issues and who have either dropped out of education, or had poor experiences of formal education. You will need to be be emotionally resilient, non-judgemental, understanding and patient to be able to challenge some learner attitudes and behaviours in a positive way.

You will have targets to:

Recruit young people to the programme
Retain young people on the programme for the period of their learning
Achieve positive outcomes into work, further learning and volunteering

Ideally you will:

Have experience in delivering learning and positive interventions to young people who are NEET or at risk of falling out of education
Have experience of managing challenging behaviours
Think on your feet and easily adapt to a variety of situations
Be engaging, learner-centred and be an excellent communicator
Be able to deliver tailored interventions and creative schemes of work
Write lesson plans, report on learner's progress and assess risk
Be able to work effectively with employers and industry to progress young people into work placements and work
Have excellent administrative and organisational skills to ensure compliance with contractual documentation requirements and effective delivery against commissioned contracts
Hold or be willing to work towards a teaching qualification and assessors award
Demonstrate a strong commitment and understanding of Safeguarding and PREVENT.

You will be required to register with the Education Workforce Council as a Work-based learning practitioner.

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