Job Description

Salary

36,363 - 39,152 per annum

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Region

Nuneaton and Bedworth

Package

Fixed term for 2 years

Job category/type

Community

Date posted

25/09/2025

Job reference

RA0007129

About us

Warwickshire is famous around the world as Shakespeare's County - but that is only half the story. We remain a creative and innovative place in other ways too.

Warwickshire is home to many UK and international brands, with key strengths in automotive, future mobility and digital creative industries. The area is a major global centre for vehicle electrification, autonomous technologies and video game development. Our local universities include "Top 10" University of Warwick and "Modern University of the Year" Coventry University. There is a lot happening here.

We are home to one of the strongest business bases in the UK and confident that even through challenging times, our economy will emerge strongly, and our organisation has an important role to play in this.

Within Warwickshire County Council, the Employability and Skills Team commissions services and provides a number of support services, primarily supporting businesses, gathering economic needs, whilst also supporting in the creation of career opportunities linking to employment, education and skills partners. The team engage widely with a number of external partners and stakeholders who we collaborate with to widen our reach.

About the Role

Business Skills Support Advisor

The Business Skills Advisor will play a crucial role in supporting Warwickshire County Council to increase and further develop their employment and skills support for Warwickshire businesses.

The role of Business Skills Advisor is to work extensively with local businesses and develop skills plans which are reflective of the business's growth ambitions. The team work holistically to support the business to engage in locally funded support programmes and attract the right talent to bring their growth aspirations alive.

The toolkit of support the team have to offer businesses is extensive, yet highly valued and successful in driving economic growth.

The role is a high impacting one which makes a measurable difference to those it supports, we therefor invite candidates with a good level of experience, local knowledge of the skills offer, and highly motived to support the business community.

Key requirements

Our ideal candidate will be an experienced skills advisor with 2 years or more business skills experience, ideally with a future skills focus. The candidate must have a broad understanding of local and national skills initiatives, with previous experience of working with businesses to address local skills needs at a strategic level. It is essential to have a good track record of delivering outputs.

What we offer

As a local authority, we pride ourselves in being collaborative and barrier breaking, whilst demonstrating strong team cultures by encouraging creative thinking, personal development and embracing new ways of working.

We are proudly an award-winning team, recognised for its culture and employee engagement, we operate a "flexible working" staff policy, whilst also offering enhanced wellbeing and staff benefit programmes such as cycle to work schemes, childcare vouchers, pension and health care schemes.

The post is based at the Warwickshire Skills Hub in Nuneaton, with county wide travel and visits to neighbouring authorities are anticipated.

For further information please see the and Person Specification.

Working for Warwickshire -

This is the difference you make

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage - Warwickshire Pension Fund'

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

Additional Information

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

If you are applying for this role on a secondment basis please ensure you have permission from your line manager.

For any questions regarding the roles available, please contact Steven Convery on on stevenconvery@warwickshire.gov.uk

Closing date: Monday 27th October 2025

Interviews: Monday 3rd November 2025

Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce.