Post Destination Support Worker
- Full time or Part time
- £32,136
- Across North Lanarkshire
- Closing 16th August 2022
- Advertised from 3rd August 2022
- 17.5 hours & 35 hours posts. Permanent.
Role
It’s our 21st birthday next year!!!
Do you want the work you do to genuinely transform people’s lives?
Then come and join Routes to Work Ltd to help achieve our goals over the next 21 years!
What will a typical day at Routes to Work be like for you?
You will be delivering a Post Destination Support service that is designed to assist young people in their transition into volunteering, education and employment. You will be committed to walk this journey with them to ensure they reach their individual goal of sustainment and progression.
You will assess client needs, provide regular monitoring and provision of professional advice, guidance and counselling support on all aspects of sustaining in volunteering, education or employment, related to their existing or potential skills and aspirations. You will provide an effective service to clients who experience sudden and significant risks to their continued destination and liaise with their placement, education establishment or employer, where necessary. You will promote lifelong learning to clients and provide guidance on career development opportunities and associated funding.
Who are we?
As a charity, we exist to help North Lanarkshire’s residents achieve their aims in life by providing sector-leading skills & employability support. In doing so, we contribute to improving the economy of North Lanarkshire, to reducing poverty and to creating a society where everyone has a good quality of life.
We tailor our support to each individual, helping them recognise and develop their unique capabilities. We support our clients in whatever way they need – skills, information, help to access financial services, health & wellbeing, support networks – to make sure they achieve success in work and life.
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of employee benefits:
- Sector leading salary packages
- Company pension scheme – 5% personal contribution matched by company
- Generous annual leave entitlement of 37 days (25 days plus 12 days public holidays).
- 35 hour working week with flexible working hours scheme (flexi-time)
- Soon to be introduced hybrid working arrangement
- Access to a range of learning and development opportunities.
- 3 x salary death in service benefit
- Access to employee reward and recognition scheme
Application notes
Pop across to our website for more information and details on how to apply for this exciting opportunity.
All posts are subject to membership of the PVG scheme
Closing Date for Applications: 5pm on Tuesday 16th August 2022
Routes to Work Ltd is committed to the principles of Equal Opportunities, please contact us if you require any adaptions for the recruitment process.
Regional Manager, Dundee and Perth & Kinross
- Part time
- £34,000 – £37,000 pro-rata
- Home based close to Dundee/Perth & Kinross with regular travel
- Closing 29th September 2023
After being with us for over five years, our current Dundee and Perth & Kinross Regional Manager is relocating to England in November 2023 to be closer to family. As a passionate, experienced professional in the identification, creation and management of a wide range of great partner relationships, you will ensure the Career Ready programme in Dundee City and Perth & Kinross continues to thrive across 8 schools in Dundee and 9 in Perth & Kinross.
This is a wonderful role that requires a broad range of skills, so you will be well organised, confident and able to positively influence a wide range of people, approaching opportunities that are well researched and outcomes with an entrepreneurial mindset. It’s also a great chance to develop personally.
Leading our work involves growing, developing and maintaining the brilliant employer and education partnerships that deliver the Career Ready programme, which includes the Local Advisory Board, the Local Authorities (key sponsors), schools (we have a Career Ready coordinator in each school), the Developing the Young Workforce Regional Group, and the many employer organisations and their people who volunteer as mentors, provide quality paid internships and deliver engaging masterclasses.
By assimilating what, why, when and the how of our work, you will be able to:
Lead and develop our Career Ready partnerships in Dundee and Perth & Kinross, optimising the programme experience for all stakeholders and securing ongoing or new employer support for the growing number of students each year (c.64 in Dundee and 50 in Perth & Kinross) who participate in the 18-month long Career Ready programme annually.
Lead programme delivery, stakeholder engagement and business development by working closely with the Career Ready Dundee and Perth & Kinross Local Advisory Board; Leanna Sinclair, Partnerships Development; Janine McFarland, Head of Programme & Operations; and the Career Ready Regional Manager and Scotland Operations team on a continuous improvement agenda that is focused on quality, impact and sustainability underpinned by attention to detail with efficient and effective processes.
- £34,000 – £37,500 DOE (pro rata)
- A working from home allowance of £300 (pro rata) pa is provided
- 33 days holiday (pro rata) plus 2 additional days in the summer. In addition, Career Ready is closed between Christmas and New Year and the time off is not taken from annual leave entitlement
- 6% of salary contribution to a private pension subject to an employee contribution of 3%
- Access to our Reward Gateway Portal and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to discounted BUPA private healthcare membership, personal accident insurance and a Cafeteria Benefits system that allows staff to buy holidays
- Interest-free season ticket or bicycle purchase loans
- Business expenses including mileage allowance for car usage
Are you enthusiastic about making a difference in young people’s lives?
Helm’s long-term vision is a Scotland where all young people dare to dream and can make those dreams a reality. Our more immediate mission is to ensure that young people in Scotland have access to the education and training that supports them to learn. Our strategy for achieving this focuses on three key activities, which we believe, will make education, training and employment accessible and achievable for all:
• Give Young People a Voice
• Remove Barriers to Learning and Employment
• Develop Education, Training and Employment Services
Our education and employment services are core to what we do at Helm. We provide young people with the support, qualifications and experience required to build the skills and knowledge to secure and maintain employment. We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual to support young people to increase their knowledge and skills in numeracy and move on to a sustainable progression.
Key responsibilities in the role include:
• Key Worker to your own caseload of young people, working effectively to build their knowledge and skills in numeracy and support and progress them to a sustainable progression.
• Ensure set targets and outcomes are met relating to your caseload and contractual requirements in programme delivery.
• Assess young people’s skills and identify their needs and support required in order to produce an individual training plan, which is agreed and understood by them.
• Plan and organise a range of individual or group activities (in-house/outside) to best support the needs of young people.
• Resource, prepare and deliver training, obtaining feedback from young people to assess programme effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
What do we give you in return? We provide you with a competitive salary, 35 days annual leave, health benefits, a pension plan, a generous range of benefits and job satisfaction with a real opportunity to make a difference every day.
We are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all young people and use a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG Scheme checks to ensure this commitment is not compromised.
WorkingRite is one of the leading employability focussed charities in Scotland. Offering an innovative, relational and tailored approach, we provide support to young people in Scotland who need it most. With mentoring at the heart of our model, we meet young people where they are and support them towards the careers that are right for them.
We are seeking a dynamic Chief Executive Officer to lead WorkingRite as a strong figurehead for the charity, providing leadership for the support of young people, placement employers, WR employees and volunteers.
The successful applicant will also be a positive ambassador to Central and Local Government and Funders, working on behalf of the Board of Trustees to develop and deliver the business plan and business strategy, ensuring the ongoing sustainability, growth and success of WorkingRite.
This post will be hybrid with base in Glasgow Office and is full time (37.5 hours) and permanent.
We require a CEO who can:
- Lead the development and implementation of our strategic goals, objectives and financial plans
- Manage the charity effectively, ensuring that its financial security, asset management and risk appraisal is planned, maintained and enhanced
- Deliver growth towards sustainability via program delivery and fundraising, and actively create new opportunities for WorkingRite
- Ensure effective internal infrastructure to deliver efficiently against goals, and with transparent reporting for the Team and Board
- Take overall responsibility for achieving, monitoring and reporting on performance against targets in all areas of the charity’s activities
- Develop a culture of continuous improvement throughout all aspects of the Charity’s work.
You will have inspirational leadership qualities; excellent communication skills; an ability to plan, think and organise around solution focused outcomes; ability to set the vision, spot opportunities and ensure strategic alignment, have an in-depth understanding of youth employability and policy landscape at local and national levels; and a desire to achieve change for young people across Scotland.
Joined Up for Advice Network Coordinator
- Part time
- £34,768 pro-rata
- Edinburgh
- Closing 12th October 2023
Capital City Partnership (CCP) is an arm’s length company of The City of Edinburgh Council and is tasked with the operational development, management and support of local and regional employability and poverty reduction measures. It takes a flexible approach to changing economic conditions, needs and opportunities but its core functions comprise:
• The management of all employability related grants and contracts awarded to external providers by the council and other key partners
• The management of assessment processes related to bids received for such grants and contracts and making recommendations for funding
• The provision of policy advice, research, and development support (including secretariat functions) to the city’s Local Employability Partnership and partners
• Support of the Edinburgh Partnership Local Outcome Improvement Plans
• Provision of support to the Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal Integrated Regional Employability and Skills programme.
Job Purpose
The Joined up for Joined Up for Advice Network Coordinator is a new position to support the development of a Joined Up for Advice (JUfA) network for better service design that is integrated, holistic, removes stigma, and leads to improved citizen engagements and referrals. It should enable earlier intervention and prevention, and ultimately improve household income and ability to move out of and/or prevent financial crisis.
To achieve this, we wish to recruit a Coordinator to support the following:
• Local Outcome Improvement Plan Priority 1: Enough Money to Live On - the post will support the main activity in this area, including a focus on the Affordable Credit Action Plan, and Money Counts training.
• Joined Up for Advice Steering Group – to provide the secretariat support for working with a JUFA Steering Group, establishing, and bringing together the core people to oversee the implementation of the Review and to consider recommendations.
• Joined Up for Advice Citizens Panel – to support a Citizens Panel with membership drawn from those with lived experience who will work directly to inform the Review recommendations on creating accessible and stigma free services. This area will also include further mapping and evaluation of services and looking at language and design for a future marketing strategy.
• Joined Up for Advice Forum – to support the refreshed development of the Advice Services Forum, with a renewed terms of reference and links to the Citizens Panel. This area will deliver a quarterly forum network with service partners, creating a place for unity, shared learning and good practice and effectively managing change and ensuring the client is placed at the centre of the conversation.
• Joined Up for Advice Charter – to support the creation of a Charter of Service Standards based on the Scottish National Standards for Information and Advice Providers supporting a refreshed approach to how services are delivered and made client centred to work together for the best outcome.
• Joined Up for Advice Bulletin – to create and disseminate a one voice professional update for the network, bringing partners together for the latest communications and encouraging a joined-up approach.
Longer term, this post will keep shared resources updated and support in the co-design/co-production of future activity including development of commissioning specifications.
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