Location: Margate

Salary: £28,000 - £32,000 DOE

About The Role

Are you a natural leader with a passion for helping people succeed in the world of work?

Join us in Margate as a full-time Restart Team Leader (35 hours per week) to inspire, coach, and guide Employment Advisors who are transforming lives every day! This role is contract-specific, with the exact location defined by the contract.

As Restart Team Leader, you ll line manage a dynamic team of Employment Advisors, ensuring high-quality support and guidance for job seekers, trainees, and apprentices. You ll play a pivotal role in developing career ambitions, building confidence, and helping learners reach their potential.

What you ll do:

• Lead, support, and supervise Employment Advisors on our Restart Scheme community contract.
• Ensure EAs provide top-notch Information, Advice, and Guidance in line with Ofsted EIF and Matrix Standards.
• Coach learners in CV writing, cover letters, job applications, and interview techniques using a strengths-based approach.
• Drive goal-focused action plans, monitor progress, and motivate job seekers to achieve results.
• Facilitate employer engagement, job matching, and work experience opportunities.
• Oversee performance and compliance, auditing EA documentation and reporting on KPIs.
• Support events, workshops, and job fairs that prepare learners for success.

Who we re looking for:

• A minimum of 2 3 years experience in employability or career guidance is essential.
• Leadership experience within the employability sector is highly recommended.
• Skilled in coaching, mentoring, and motivating others.
• Knowledgeable about employability, recruitment, and career development.
• Strong communicator with excellent organisational skills and attention to compliance.

You ll make a real impact on people s careers and lives while being part of a supportive, ambitious, and values-driven team. This is your chance to lead a motivated team, shape innovative employability programs, and help job seekers thrive in the world of work.

Ready to lead, inspire, and make a difference? Apply today!

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)

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.