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Employment Specialist

PeoplePlus


Job Location:

Nottingham - UK

Yearly Salary: GBP 30001 - 35000
Posted: 21 September 2026 (8 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 19 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

People Plus are looking for dedicated skilled and tenacious Employment Specialists to deliver Connect to Work (CtW) across Nottingham city and Nottinghamshire south.

The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) approach helps people with disabilities learning difficulties/disabilities neuro-diverse conditions poor mental health or individuals from other disadvantaged and/or complex backgrounds to prepare for secure and sustain meaningful paid employment aligned with their goals while promoting inclusion independence and long-term wellbeing.

Youllmanage a caseload employing IPS methods to offer personalised guidance to clients and build relationships with referral partners and local employersfacilitatingsuitable job placements.

The role combines one-to-one support employer engagement and collaboration with multidisciplinary health teams and community organisations.

Employment specialists will have a passion for supporting people to change their lives through gaining sustainable employment.

This role is face-to face and will require delivering the service in the community in Nottingham City and South Nottinghamshire.

For full details of the role and the person specification please review the job description or if you would like to speak to the recruitment team before you apply please email any questions to and one of the team will come back to you. If you wish to apply please ensure this is done via the apply now button.

Who We Are

Here at People Plus we make a positive difference to peoples lives every single day.

We use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services including employment support skills trainingprison education starting a business and support to help employers grow.

To put it simply we:

  • Support people to find and keep jobs
  • Help people to set up their own businesses
  • Deliver skills training to further peoples careers
  • Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
  • Rehabilitate people with convictions
  • Tackle the root causes of offending
  • Support carers

We are extremely proud to be a Gold accredited Investors in People organisation. This demonstrates our commitment to creating the very best environment and culture for our colleagues to succeed and thrive.

Our Benefits

A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year

25 days annual leave

Cycle to Work scheme

Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal

Employee Assistance Programme

Access to online wellbeing centre

Enhanced Wedding leave

A paid volunteering day each year

Testimonials

I have worked within PeoplePlus for 6 months now my team is amazing and full of support. I have been given many opportunities to expand my role and learn new skills always supported by management and my colleagues.

PeoplePlus is a great place to work astheycare about and support their employees whilst challenging them to grow within the company. The core values contribute effectively to the company culture of honesty communication and self-improvement enabling staff to be heard and feedback and share opinions in a progressive way. Staff are always empowered to perform and motivated by achievement thereby creating a positive environment within which to support the well-being of others.

I have loved my time since joining PeoplePlus as an Administrator for the Restart Scheme in Stockton. After a few months I enrolled onto Level 3 HR Support apprenticeship through the internal apprenticeship programme. Since then I have joined the Contract Assurance team as Compliance officer for the Northeast. I have a great support system within the organisation and have been given many fantastic opportunities to help progress my professional development.

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