- Advertised from 21st November 2022
- 35hrs per week.
Role
Inspired to make a positive impact on young people’s lives? Do you have the skills to engage, inspire and progress young people aged 16-24 towards a positive destination? If the answer to these questions is yes…Then read on – we may just be the perfect fit!
We are an innovative and exciting organisation who INSPIRE young people across Scotland to realise their potential and we are looking for someone who shares our passion and commitment to achieve this through delivery of a variety of vocational and employability themed programmes.
This is a full time (35hrs per week) role, and the successful applicant will have experience in delivering training and supporting individuals into a positive destination.
Context and Purpose
RUTS is committed to providing vocational training and other support of the highest quality to young people using innovative solutions. The successful candidate will support the achievement of RUTS employability targets and outcomes by delivering focused employability training that will assist participants to secure progression opportunities. These will include but are not limited to employment, education, and further training opportunities. They will deliver group employability and personal development workshops and qualifications, establish, and maintain partnerships with referral agencies and develop links with the colleges and employers to secure suitable opportunities for our young people.
There is scope to further develop this post creatively with young people. This is not an exhaustive list; you will be required to contribute to the development of this exciting role in collaboration with the Senior Employability Worker and wider staff team.
The Individual
The individual will be enthusiastic and committed to working with young people, supporting them to identify and remove barriers and helping them to successfully move into positive destinations and achieve better outcomes.
Values based -
The individual will share RUTS values:
- Innovative – Encouraging and nurturing ideas.
- Networks – Connecting and building relationships
- Seamless – Providing effective service delivery through joined up services
- Participative – Collaborating in the design and implementation of services
- Inclusive – Encouraging diversity, welcoming individuals from all communities
- Responsive – Anticipating change and adapting our services to meet needs
- Empowering – Enabling people to reach their potential
We have a friendly and professional ethos, with a strong commitment to quality and innovation, both in terms of the services and products we provide and the way we work together.
Essential tasks:
- Work with young people to identify barriers to positive destinations and empower them to achieve
- Assist in the development of activities which support young people to develop work-based skills, life skills and enhance communication
- Deliver and facilitate a range of employability and vocational programmes and qualifications
- Support young people who may have had a poor experience of education and consequently have difficulties with literacy, self-esteem and communication.
- Maintain knowledge of opportunities available to young people who wish to pursue a career in a related field.
- Develop and maintain employer relationships to facilitate work experience and/or employment opportunities
- Expand networks with other training and education providers
- Maintain written records of the work undertaken for the purposes of evaluation.
- Obtain evidence to support progression outcomes and achievement
- Manage own time and support the delivery of objectives and targets ensuring the development of professional practice and updating personal knowledge of local and national employability initiatives.
- Continuously demonstrate and develop better understanding of ethical issues in relation to working with young people. (eg. Confidentiality, Child Protection and equal opportunities, etc.)
The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation and its overall objectives.
Person Specification
Required skills and experience:
Essential:
- Able to demonstrate coaching/mentoring experience and persuasion/influencing skills through previous work or social activities
- Experience or knowledge of local and national employability initiatives
- Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills and the ability to manage your own time effectively
- Any relevant vocational and/or training qualification e.g. CIAG, Assessor/Verifier – Or willing to work towards this
- Proficient IT literacy (use of Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel, Teams and Zoom)
- Flexible can-do attitude
- Commitment to Continued Personal Development (through both in-house, external, and self-guided learning/training)
- Current full UK car driving licence
- Membership of PVG scheme (upon appointment)
Desirable:
- Experience of working in a performance target driven environment
- Experience or understanding of SQA/SCQF qualifications structure or development
- Occasional out of hours working
The above is not an exhaustive list of duties, and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by the organisation and its overall objectives
Application notes
To apply, please send an up-to-date CV and cover letter detailing why you believe you fit the requirements of the role to recruitment@ruts.org.uk
For an informal chat or if you have any questions around any aspect of the role please get in touch with Asher on 0131 663 5736
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.
Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people? Do you want a flexible, varied and meaningful job in a supportive team? Do you value great employee benefits such as 360 Wellbeing membership and an annual training budget? Apply to join us!
Bridges Project is a leading youth work charity that helps young people aged 12-25 in East Lothian and Midlothian overcome challenges and adapt to adulthood. For nearly 40 years, we have helped young people develop their life skills, improve their educational attainment and move into employment or further education.
We have a vacancy for a GIRFEC Support Worker to provide bespoke, individually tailored support packages to 17 young people per year who have been identified as not engaging in or coping with mainstream school. The post holder will provide a mixture of one to one intervention and group learning to young people, including support in areas such as wellbeing, personal and emotional development and employability. The successful candidate will support young people to gain employability skills, life skills and accreditation; helping them in to work, apprenticeships, further education or vocational training. They will deliver the service as agreed with East Lothian Council, Inclusion and Wellbeing.
It is essential that candidates have a full, clean driving licence and constant use of a car. Membership of the PVG scheme will be an essential requirement of the post. The post is funded by East Lothian Council. A contributory company pension scheme is offered with a 10% employer contribution.
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