Employment Advisor

Job overview

Are you looking for a rewarding and fulfilling career that makes a positive impact on people’s mental health and well-being?

Do you have a passion for helping people find and sustain employment that suits their needs and aspirations?

If so, we want to hear from you!

Talking Therapies are looking for Employment Advisors to work alongside their team of therapists to ensure that a personalised package of combined psychological treatment and employment support is available to all service users.

This role is part of a new employment advice service where you will be supporting service users with remaining in employment, returning to employment following a period of absence or seeking new employment.

You will need to be enthusiastic and motivated with a caring and positive approach to succeed in this role.

We have positions available within our Mid and West Cornwall areas.

This is a Fixed Term/Secondment role until the end of March 2026.

Main duties of the job

• This role is part of an employment advice service, working closely with people with common mental health problems and their clinicians. Managing a case load of service users
• The post holders will support service users to gain, return to or retain employment
• The role will involve working directly with Jobcentre Plus, employers, trade unions and employment agencies to keep people in employment and secure employment opportunities
• The post holder will provide interventions within the employment support team. This includes one to one sessions [face to face / telephone / video call] and /or develop a group programme with service users for job retention / return to work/ gaining and keeping sustainable employment
• Collaboratively working with the Talking Therapies Service
• To reduce stigma of people with mental health conditions in employment, Talking Therapies, and wider Trust

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.