About us
FARE Scotland is a voluntary organisation working within disadvantaged communities throughout Central Scotland. At
FARE Scotland we strive to raise people’s aspirations, encourage them to become more involved in their
communities, create opportunities for personal development and equip them with the skills required to deal with
the demands of 21st century life.
Working at FARE Scotland, you will be part of passionate and hard-working team that aims to improve the lives of the
people in the communities we serve.
What you’ll do
We have an exciting opportunity for 2 Employability Keyworkers to join our Employability team which delivers
accredited industry training and support to members of the local and wider community to access further
education, training and/or employment. You will work closely with the Employability Manager and across the team
to ensure high-quality employability support and programme delivery to achieve individual aims for participants
across the employability pipeline.
You will provide holistic support to young people and adults that will minimise barriers to employment and offer
training to increase skills, development, and support access to further training, and education to allow people
to move on to sustained progressions along the employability pipeline.
As part of your role, your main responsibilities will include:
- Designing, delivering, and evaluating training for young people and adults that supports sustained progressions
into further education, training, employment, or re-engagement in schools.
- Establishing relationships
with key stakeholders including, SDS, local colleges, GCC and local retailers at Glasgow Fort, promoting the
employability programme and representing FARE Scotland at external events.
- Liaising with employers to
identify job opportunities, and further training or education opportunities within the employability pipeline to
meet recruitment targets and outcomes for our Youth Action Fund and Training for Work
programmes.
- Designing all referral/induction and training materials and providing an induction and
assessment to all participants to identify holistic support to remove barriers.
- Recruitment for
programmes and ensuring programme evaluations are completed.
- Undertaking one-to-one goal setting
interviews and reviews.
- Delivering training in group settings, using a range of learning materials to
accommodate different learning styles.
- Challenging negative attitudes and behaviours whilst motivating
individuals to retain focus.
- Ensuring Employability programme trainees get the support that they require
to help them remain engaged, focused and progress to their identified goals.
- Supporting participants’
further education and job search activities, personal development, goal setting, identifying, and overcoming
barriers, CV development, completing applications, interview skills, and accredited
qualifications.
- Providing 52-week post-employment support to achieve sustained employment outcomes,
including tracking and database record-keeping.
- Working alongside Youth Workers within school settings
to plan and deliver tailored employability support for young people.
- Maintaining up to date knowledge of
employment sectors and pre-employment training.
About you
The successful candidate for this role will have:
- Sound knowledge of the national and local policies including No One Left Behind, The Young Person’s Guarantee,
the Local Employability Partnership, Training for work initiative, barriers people face to enter employment and
the skills to support their development and ability to achieve goals.
- Experience of delivering
employability support and training provisions for young people and adults.
- Experience working with young
people and adults in the employability sector, supporting sustained progressions.
- An organised and
systematic approach to monitoring and reporting.
- The ability to challenge, in a constructive manner,
negative attitudes, motivating young people and adults with multiple barriers to employment.
- Excellent
communication and presentation skills.
- Good knowledge of the employability landscape.
- Excellent
IT skills in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access particularly for database-related work and report
writing.
- An HNC or HND in a relevant field, or a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
Along with the above, we would be looking for an individual who shares, and is able to demonstrate, the
organisation’s values of being compassionate, open, collaborative, innovative and driven.
What we can offer
In return, we can offer you:
- Enhanced holiday entitlement
- Christmas shutdown period
- Company Sick Pay
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Death in Service benefit (4 x basic salary)