Employment Advisor

• Realise Futures
• Address: Lovetofts Drive Ipswich Suffolk IP1 5NZ
• Salary: 27150 per annum
• Hours: 37 hours per week
• Contract: Permanent
• Reference: 0731

Do you want to be part of a team delivering the Restart Contract for Realise Futures

We are looking to recruit a Rapid Response Advisor (Employment Advisor) to join our existing team based in Ipswich.

About the Role

You will be responsible for delivering the Rapid Response offer within the Restart Scheme providing intensive and tailored support to help unemployed people secure and sustain employment. You will work closely with participants who are currently in work and/or those who have recently fallen out of employment.

Working as part of a supportive team you will be ambitious for yourself and for the people you support. You will be an excellent communicator who is solution-focused organised motivational and inspiring.

Are you the winning combination we need to help secure and sustain meaningful employment for our participants

Key Responsibilities

• Support unemployed jobseekers (our participants) to find and sustain employment
• Work with participants who are in work or have become unemployed
• Engage positively with employers to create employment opportunities
• Deliver an excellent participant experience which is central to the success of our service
• Achieving targets and KPIs

About us

The purpose of Realise Futures is to improve the wellbeing mental health and employability of disabled and disadvantaged people whilst contributing to the economy in our communities. Realise Futures operates as a hybrid company combining commercial trade with personal & government funded public services.

Our aim is to create opportunities for people to succeed in work learning and life through four company departments Learning Coaching and Advice Employment and Inclusion and RF Works (seven distinct Social Businesses) and Central (internal core infrastructure).

We provide professional and tailored opportunities that support people to realise their potential.

As one of the largest Community Interest Companies in the East of England we employ approximately 230 staff 40% of which have a declared disability.

Realise Futures is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults young people and children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

Benefits

Realise Futures is proud to be a mindful employer that offers a range of employee benefits including:

• Flexible working arrangements (where business needs allow)
• Performance related pay increase system as part of the appraisal process
• 45p per mile expenses (cars first 10000 miles excluding commute)
• Appreciation Award if successfully nominated: 150 per individual OR 500 shared across your team
• Annual Colleague Awards event at our AGM.
• 25 days annual leave (in addition to recognised bank holidays)
• Additional day of paid leave around your birthday
• Additional paid wellbeing day
• Additional paid volunteer day
• 3 days additional annual leave after 3 years service
• An additional days paid leave on the day that you celebrate a 5-year work anniversary with Realise Futures
• Disability leave policy that is separate from Sickness Absence
• A confidential counselling service 24 hours a day 365 days a year to you and members of your immediate family
• Trained First Aid Mental Health First Aiders
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Occupational pension scheme.

For more information

For an informal discussion about this role please contact either Emma Manning Business Manager by calling or Julie Sidney Operational Manager by calling .

How to apply

To apply please complete the application form available via our website.

Please remember to quote the Realise Futures reference number 130-26 in your application.

If you have any further queries or difficulties please email

Closing date: 1.00 pm 12 May 2026.

Interview date: 14 May 2026.

Please note:

Please ensure you are available for the interview date before applying.

If any of the colleagues whose posts are currently at risk of redundancy show interest in this redeployment opportunity they will be prioritised for this opportunity and if more than one of these colleagues is interested the outcomes of the interviews will be used to determine the best candidate.

Realise Futures CIC is a company operating across Suffolk and Norfolk combining commercial trade of products and services alongside work placements employment and training opportunities. The primary aim of the business is to improve and promote the economic and social wellbeing of those who are disadvantaged and/or disabled.

The company is organised in four divisions Learning and Development Employment and Inclusion and RF Works (seven distinct Social Businesses) and Central (internal core infrastructure). Together they provide professional and tailored opportunities that support people to realise their potential.

This role is subject to a DBS check.

Realise Futures: Enhancing Peoples Lives.