Early Careers Advisor – Graduates & Apprentices in Cheshire, Warrington

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the future workforce in a role that truly makes a difference. At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Emerging Talent Advisor at one of our key UK sites, near Warrington (Cheshire), Leicester (Leicestershire) or Bristol.

The role:

As an Emerging Talent Advisor, you will play a pivotal role in supporting and developing our next generation of talent across our graduate and apprenticeship programmes. This is a unique opportunity to shape early careers, guiding individuals through their professional journeys while ensuring they succeed academically, vocationally and personally. This role is based at one of our key UK locations Warrington (Cheshire), Leicester (Leicestershire) or Bristol and is 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with hybrid working patterns and occasional travel to other sites.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Manage a dedicated caseload of graduates and apprentices, supporting their performance, welfare and development.
• Work closely with line managers to monitor progress and ensure programme requirements are met.
• Coordinate with training providers to track academic and vocational achievements.
• Support recruitment and selection activities for new early careers talent.
• Deliver outreach, community engagement and development programme activities.

Essential experience of the Emerging Talent Advisor:

• Experience in recruitment, human resources, learning and development, education or a related field.
• Demonstrating strong relationship-building skills with stakeholders at all levels.
• Showing empathy, resilience and a proactive approach to supporting individuals.
• Managing multiple priorities with strong organisational and time management skills.
• Using Microsoft Office tools such as Excel and Word with confidence.

Qualifications for the Emerging Talent Advisor:

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

What we offer:

• Generous holiday allowance.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• Be Kind Day enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish:

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work‑life balance. Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 03/06/2026