Employee wellbeing or colleague support coordinator · Engineering client support coordinator · Health and safety support or compliance coordinator · Events coordinator
YOUR RE-ENTRY REPORT
Jehan
Your experience gives you credible routes into people support, engineering client service and safety coordination
Your eight years as an engineering office manager give you transferable experience in workplace operations, H&S, inductions and colleague support. Your strongest routes to investigate are employee wellbeing or colleague support, engineering client support, and health and safety or compliance support. Events is also worth exploring, but is a less direct transfer and pay may be less predictable. I checked the vacancy pages: current listings include St Anne’s, Ingersoll Rand, Leeds City College, Freeths, Asda, Special Olympics GB, Dawsongroup, Leeds Beckett and the Oyster Recruitment listing. The Encircle Housing and Spire Healthcare listings need their exact employer application pages verified before you rely on them. Pay is unpublished or uncertain in several cases, so confirm the actual starting salary; for part-time work, check the actual contracted-hours pay rather than assuming a full-time equivalent.
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LS13 · £30k-40k
Supporting colleagues through listening and practical guidance · Workplace operations and safety awareness · Supporting onboarding activity · Encouraging colleague participation in social-impact activity · Generating ideas and solutions · Contributing to marketing activity
Sustained experience in a working environment where office operations, health and safety and integrated management systems matter.
01 · YOUR OPTIONS
Career directions worth exploring.
Adjacent
Employee wellbeing or colleague support coordinator
This is the strongest match to your wish for more meaningful work supporting people, while building on several parts of your existing office and colleague-support experience.
Transferable
Engineering client support coordinator
This offers a practical route toward supporting clients and colleagues without leaving the engineering context entirely.
Transferable
Health and safety support or compliance coordinator
This could let you use your operational experience in work with a clearer safety and compliance purpose, while moving toward a more structured support role. Grounded transferable route
Exploratory
Events coordinator
You have already considered events, and your committee and charity work offer a real starting point. It is worth investigating, but the evidence is less direct than for the other routes.
MORE TO EXPLORE
Other directions your experience could open up.
These are broader possibilities worth exploring. We have not put them through the same market checks as your main Re-entry directions, so treat them as ideas to test, not recommendations.
Learning and development coordinator
Why explore: You list inductions among your responsibilities and supported colleagues as a mental health first aider. Those facts give you a basis to investigate people development work, though they do not establish that you have designed or delivered training.
What's new: The work may involve coordinating learning records, sessions or materials, and possibly facilitating training. You have not described designing or delivering formal learning.
Try this: Ask someone who coordinates workplace learning to describe a typical week and which tasks they would expect a new entrant to handle.
Salary check: Compare advertised entry-level pay near LS13 or for flexible roles with your stated £30k-40k range.
Check first: Your induction tasks and any training delivery are unclear. This
Needs market testing.
Worth exploring
Health and safety coordinator
Why explore: You list health and safety, IMS and maintaining the office space among your responsibilities. This gives you direct workplace context to explore a more focused safety role, without proving that you hold specialist safety qualifications.
What's new: The work may involve formal risk assessments, audits and compliance records. You have not described these tasks or specialist safety qualifications.
Try this: Speak with a health and safety coordinator about the tasks they handle and what experience or qualifications employers require for entry.
Salary check: Check realistic entry-level pay in nearby or flexible roles against your stated £30k-40k range.
Check first: Required qualifications and technical responsibilities vary. This
Needs market testing.
Worth exploring
Internal communications coordinator
Why explore: You list marketing and the social committee among your responsibilities, and you motivated colleagues to take part in charity fundraising. These facts could support an investigation of internal engagement work, but the communications tasks you handled are not specified.
What's new: The role may require writing, editing or planning communications across channels. You have not described copywriting, campaign results or digital publishing.
Try this: Ask an internal communications professional to review a short workplace message you draft and explain the skills their role uses most.
Salary check: Compare local or flexible entry-point pay with your stated £30k-40k range before treating this as viable.
Check first: Your marketing duties and writing experience are unclear. This
Needs market testing.
Worth exploring
Charity fundraising coordinator
Why explore: You were a charity champion and motivated colleagues to raise money, while also listing social value among your responsibilities. That is a specific basis to explore fundraising, though it does not establish donor, grant or campaign management experience.
What's new: The work may involve donor communication, campaign planning or income targets. You have not described fundraising beyond motivating colleagues or managing donations.
Try this: Talk with a charity fundraiser about how their week is divided between supporter contact, campaigns and income reporting.
Salary check: Check realistic entry pay for nearby or flexible charity roles against your stated £30k-40k range.
Check first: Fundraising methods and entry requirements vary. This
Needs market testing.
Worth exploring
02 · YOUR VALUE & MARKET
Your experience is broader than your job title suggests.
Sustained experience in a working environment where office operations, health and safety and integrated management systems matter. Experience with workplace operations, safety-related responsibilities and onboarding processes. Exposure to workplace engagement and social impact activity, as well as marketing responsibilities whose scope is not specified.
The right job isn't necessarily the biggest job.
03 · YOUR EARNING POTENTIAL
You told us you're looking for £30k-40k. Most of the live roles we found sit between around £28,000 and £32,000. Use your salary requirement to decide which opportunities are worth pursuing.
You told us you're looking for £30k-40k. Most of the live roles we found sit between around £28,000 and £32,000. Use your salary requirement to decide which opportunities are worth pursuing.
Your experience already proves more than your current job title may suggest.
04 · YOUR SEARCH PACK
Know exactly what to look for.
Supporting colleagues through listening and practical guidance · Workplace operations and safety awareness · Supporting onboarding activity · Encouraging colleague participation in social-impact activity · Generating ideas and solutions · Your experience supporting colleagues was as a mental health first aider; formal wellbeing-programme coordination and handling sensitive casework are not established. · Check the required digital tools, especially Microsoft 365, Excel and SharePoint, and whether you would be comfortable maintaining records and reporting. · Direct customer-service or client-query handling is not established.
Professional services · Local government · Charities · Education · Regulated services · Service operations
03 · WHAT'S CHANGED
Know what matters — and what you can ignore.
WORTH KNOWING
We found 9 live opportunities across 4 of your supported directions. The strongest current activity is around Employee wellbeing or colleague support coordinator and Engineering client support coordinator.
WORTH REFRESHING
Check your confidence with Microsoft 365, Excel, SharePoint and record-keeping tools used in the roles you choose. For wellbeing work, learn the boundaries between mental health first aid, programme coordination and sensitive case management.
SAFE TO IGNORE
Your previous job title does not define the full range of work you can target.
06 · YOUR MARKET EVIDENCE
Where your experience meets today's market.
Your experience is already translating into live roles across Employee wellbeing or colleague support coordinator, Engineering client support coordinator, Health and safety support or compliance coordinator. Your Supporting colleagues through listening and practical guidance, Workplace operations and safety awareness, Supporting onboarding activity experience gives you evidence to build from.
The main entry question is the scope of experience each vacancy requires. Supporting colleagues as a mental health first aider does not by itself establish formal wellbeing casework or programme management; compare essential duties with examples you can actually provide.
SALARY
You told us you're looking for £30k-40k. Most of the live roles we found sit between around £28,000 and £32,000. Use your salary requirement to decide which opportunities are worth pursuing.
DEMAND
We found 9 live opportunities across 4 of your supported directions. The strongest current activity is around Employee wellbeing or colleague support coordinator and Engineering client support coordinator.
COMPETITION
Your combination of engineering office operations, H&S, induction and colleague support is the evidence to foreground. Where applicants have direct wellbeing or client-support experience, make your own responsibilities and outcomes clear rather than treating the office manager title as the whole story.
04 · YOUR SMARTEST NEXT MOVE
Use the live opportunities to test the strongest routes now.
Start with the live opportunities: Building Safety Compliance Officer · Aftermarket Service Coordinator · Pastoral Coach · Student Welfare Officer · Service Controller · Wellbeing & Responsible Business Officer · Trade Planning & Events Coordinator · Fundraising & Events Executive · Customer Care Coordinator.
05 · YOUR QUESTION
The question you wanted answered.
No evidence here suggests that your age should rule you out. These opportunities focus on experience, skills and role requirements, and your eight years of work plus colleague-support, H&S, induction, charity and social-value responsibilities give you concrete examples to discuss. Your technology concerns are specific and checkable: look at the tools each vacancy names and identify which you already know and which you could refresh.
LIVE OPPORTUNITIES
Roles worth investigating for your
Re-entry.
We checked current roles against your experience, priorities and the career directions in this report.
LIVE ROLES · VERIFIED BEFORE YOUR REPORT IS SENT
Verified live opportunity
Customer Care Coordinator
Oyster Recruitment Limited
£30,000 to £32,000 per year
Full-time, on-site
The current Reed listing gives a £30,000–£32,000 salary and describes an engineering customer-care role in Bradford. Your industry and office experience are relevant, though direct customer-service experience is not established. Check before applying: Confirm the starting salary and Bradford on-site hours. Check whether technical customer-service experience is required or only advantageous. Ask what CRM and Microsoft Office skills are expected.
View role →Listing to verify
Health & Safety Administrator
Spire Healthcare
Competitive salary stated; amount not published
Permanent, part time, 22.5 hours per week
Listing to verify. The role's listed safety-administration work is relevant to your stated H&S and induction responsibilities. The exact supplied destination is unconfirmed, and actual part-time pay and IOSH requirements need checking. Check before applying: Verify the vacancy on Spire Healthcare's own careers site. Ask for the actual salary for 22.5 hours per week. Confirm the IOSH requirement and whether training can be completed after appointment.
View role →Listing to verify
Repairs and Compliance Coordinator
Encircle Housing
£32,306.93 per year for 37.5 hours
Permanent, full time, 37.5 hours; working times and contracted hours negotiable; two home-working days may be possible by agreement
Listing to verify. A recent employer social post supports the possibility of a current vacancy, but the exact supplied listing destination is unconfirmed. The work connects to your H&S and maintenance responsibilities. Check before applying: Find and confirm the vacancy on Encircle Housing's own recruitment site. Ask about contracted hours, salary and working arrangements. Check whether property or contractor experience is essential.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Fundraising & Events Executive
Special Olympics Great Britain
£28,000 to £30,000 per year
Full-time, 35 hours; primarily home-based, with occasional evenings and weekends and events across Great Britain
Special Olympics GB confirms this current full-time role. Your charity and people-support experience connects to the work, but the salary may be below your ideal and the geographic preference and travel need checking. Check before applying: Confirm the starting salary and whether it meets your needs. Ask how often travel, evening or weekend work is expected and whether Leeds is practical for the role. Confirm the application deadline, currently listed as 2 November 2026.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Trade Planning & Events Coordinator
Asda
Competitive, not specified
Full-time, permanent, 37.5 hours; hybrid with at least 3 days per week in a home office
Asda's employer page confirms a current Leeds vacancy. Your charity, committee and marketing experience is relevant, but commercial event delivery and reporting requirements are not established. Check before applying: Ask about salary and the exact hybrid attendance requirement. Check how essential commercial-event, project-plan and reporting experience is. Confirm the application deadline, currently listed as 5 November 2026.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Wellbeing & Responsible Business Officer
Freeths
Not stated
Not stated; Leeds is listed as a possible base
Freeths' employer page presents the role across several office locations including Leeds. Your MHFA and social-impact responsibilities give a strong connection, but pay is unpublished and named tools are not established. Check before applying: Ask about salary, working hours and the Leeds office arrangement. Check how much SharePoint, reporting and data analysis experience is required. Prepare accurate examples of your MHFA and social-impact responsibilities.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Service Controller
Dawsongroup
Competitive salary plus benefits
Full-time, in person
The employer vacancy page is accessible and describes a current Garforth vacancy. Engineering-office experience gives a credible link, but the licence requirement is unknown and pay is unpublished. Check before applying: Confirm the driving-licence and experience requirements. Ask about salary and working hours. Check the commute to Garforth and whether the on-site arrangement suits you.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Student Welfare Officer
Leeds City College, Luminate Education Group
£30,106 to £31,916 per annum
Full-time; campus listed as Enfield Centre / Hybrid
The employer page confirms a current Leeds vacancy paying £30,106–£31,916. Your people-support experience is relevant but indirect, and the listed qualification and specialist experience requirements need checking. Check before applying: Confirm the qualification or substantial-experience criteria before applying. Check whether your mental-health-first-aider work is relevant to the required vulnerable-student support experience. Ask about the Enfield Centre / hybrid arrangement and confirm the application deadline, currently listed as 4 November 2026.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Pastoral Coach
Leeds City College, Luminate Education Group
£30,106 to £31,916 per annum
Full-time; flexibility to confirm with the recruiting manager
The employer page shows this Leeds vacancy as open, with pay starting at £30,106. Your support and induction experience provide a plausible but indirect link; relevant learner experience is not established. Check before applying: Check whether your workplace support experience meets the required experience with young people or learners. Ask about safeguarding training, DBS checks and flexible working. Confirm the application deadline, currently listed as 1 November 2026.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Aftermarket Service Coordinator
Ingersoll Rand, Gardner Denver
Not stated
Full-time, fully site-based; flexi time listed
The employer's careers page currently presents the Bradford vacancy. Its engineering setting and coordination work are relevant, though the customer-service and systems requirements need checking. Check before applying: Confirm salary and working hours with the employer. Check whether the site-based Bradford arrangement is practical. Ask how essential SAP and direct customer-service experience are.
View role →Verified live opportunity
Building Safety Compliance Officer
St Anne’s Community Services
Not stated; check with employer
Permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week; flexible working may be available after probation
The current Trac advert is open and the compliance-coordination work connects to your stated H&S and office responsibilities. The licence requirement is essential but unknown, and salary is unpublished. Check before applying: Confirm you hold a current driving licence. Ask about salary and the flexibility available after probation. Check how your H&S and IMS responsibilities compare with managing statutory building-safety records.
View role →09 · DO THIS THIS WEEK
Turn the report into movement.
1. Review the 9 live opportunities. 2. Tailor your CV around the evidence each role asks for. 3. Apply selectively where the remaining gaps are learnable rather than hard blockers.
YOUR RE-ENTRY PLAN
Keep this bit.
Health and safety support or compliance coordinator
Supporting colleagues through listening and practical guidance · Workplace operations and safety awareness · Supporting onboarding activity · Encouraging colleague participation in social-impact activity
Supporting colleagues through listening and practical guidance
Check your confidence with Microsoft 365, Excel, SharePoint and record-keeping tools used in the roles you choose. For wellbeing work, learn the boundaries between mental health first aid, programme coordination and sensitive case management.