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- Advertised from 16th May 2024
- 35 hours per week. Fixed Term Contract to December 2025 with the potential to extend.
- Annual Leave Entitlement: 25 days, plus 9 public holidays, plus 3 days for Christmas shutdown.
Role
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 new opportunity for a Youth Employability Keyworker to join our Employability team. Reporting to the Employability Manager, you will work closely with them to ensure high-quality employability support and programme delivery to achieve individual aims for young people across the employability pipeline. You will provide holistic support to young people 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.
The successful candidate will have a sound knowledge of the national and local policies including No One Left Behind, The Young Person’s Guarantee, the Local Employability Partnership, barriers young people face to enter employment and the skills to support their development and ability to achieve goals. You will be responsible for forming relationships with key stakeholders including, SDS, GCC and local retailers at Glasgow Fort.
As part of your role, your main responsibilities will include:
- Designing, delivering, and evaluating training for young people that supports sustained progressions into further education, training, employment, or reg-engagement in schools.
- Recruitment for programmes.
- Undertaking one-to-one goal setting interviews and reviews.
- Delivering training in-group settings using a range of learning materials accommodating a range of learning styles to meet groups' learning needs.
- Design and deliver employability training session to be delivered from our Skills and Community Hub.
- Maintaining up to date knowledge of the employment sector for young people and pre-employment training provisions that may be needed.
- Ensuring Employability Programme trainees get the support that they require to help them remain engaged, focused and progress to their identified goals.
- Building trusting relationships with FARE Scotland and Employability Programme trainees, challenging negative attitudes and behaviours whilst motivating individuals to retain focus.
- Supporting participants’ FE and job search activities, personal development, goal setting, identifying, and overcoming barriers, CV development, completing applications, interview skills, and accredited qualifications.
- Liaising with employers to identify job opportunities, further training and/or education within the stages of the Employability Pipeline in order to meet recruitment targets and outcomes for our Youth Action Fund programmes.
- Providing post-employment support to achieve sustained employment outcomes, including tracking, and database record-keeping.
- Attending meetings to represent FARE Scotland, promoting the Employability Programme at external events.
- Monitoring and evaluating all employability training programmes.
- Adapting to changing needs and requirements as the position and organisation grows and develops.
About you
The successful candidate for this role will have:
- Experience of delivering employability support and training to young people.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to motivate young people with multiple barriers to employment.
- Organised and systematic approach to monitoring and reporting.
- Ability to work with people at all levels, both internally and externally.
- The drive and initiative to work independently.
- Ability to share learning and develop practice through feedback.
- Ability to challenge, in a constructive manner, negative attitudes.
- Excellent IT skills in Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access particularly for database-related work and report writing.
- Good knowledge of the employability landscape.
- Good knowledge of Scotland’s new National Performance Framework and Economic Strategy and No One Left Behind.
- Experience working with young people.
- Experience in supporting sustained progressions.
- Educated to HNC/HND level or minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
- A full UK driving licence.
Ideally you will have:
- Knowledge of statutory organisations including Skills Development Scotland.
- Experience providing outcomes-focused employability skills to individuals excluded from mainstream employment.
- Experience in the delivery of SVQ/PDAs.
- Recruitment and selection experience.
- A L&D9I (Assessor Qualification) and/or L&D11 (Verifier Qualification).
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.
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
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible working options
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Death in Service benefit (4 x basic salary)
Application notes
If this sounds like you, and you are looking for an exciting new opportunity, then please apply by sending us a copy of your CV and a cover letter to hr@fare-scotland.org.
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Purpose of role
To support communities to organise, take action and engage on the needs and issues that matter to them.
Help local people to come together to form:
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About the Organisation
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Purpose of role:
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Key Responsibilities
- To support Volunteer recruitment, identifying training, learning needs and creating an annual syllabus of learning opportunities.
- Consulting with the local community around training, employability and learning needs.
- To develop a users forum who will lead our community consultation, implementing their recommendations for our activity programme.
- Delivering adult learning courses and stand alone sessions.
- Developing links with third party organisations who can provide elements of adult learning programmes.
- Develop links with local residents who can offer their skills and knowledge to the learning calendar.
- Undertake training as required.
- Support major events within The Phoenix’s calendar alongside the staff team.
Your role as an DEI Consultant is to support our employer partners introduce inclusive practise and understand how to recruit and support a diverse workforce.
You will deliver support to Enable Works employer partners and deliver effective DEI interventions, including training. Delivering a pioneering DEI programme, you will provide support to young disabled people in employment and help their employers develop skills in supporting disabled colleagues
Enable Works are the leading specialist provider of employability services for people who have barriers to work. We believe that every person in Scotland has the right to work in a job that is high quality and well paid.
Enable Works supports over 5500 people every year across 29 Local Authorities to learn skills for work.
We partner with thousands of employers to create inclusive cultures and improve the diversity of Scotland's workforce.
We are incredibly proud of our smart, capable, and motivated colleagues across Scotland and following a period of significant growth we are looking to grow our team.
We offer a generous salary (pay award pending), excellent benefits, and opportunities to develop and grow in your role.
We offer flexible working practices that promote a strong work/life balance so that when you are at work you can be the best version of you.
Values are more important to us than qualifications or experience, so if you don’t think you meet every requirement that’s ok, we still want to hear from you.
At Enable Works we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this role, or other roles.
About You
We really need you to have these
- Dynamic and engaging training skills
- Ability to manage your own workload and prioritise as needed
- Confident communicator
- Strong attention to detail
- Professional presentation and personality
- Ability to coach young people with disabilities in the workplace
- Ability to build relationships with external partners and promote EDI training and interventions.
- IT literacy
- Comfortable working towards targets
- A natural, professional relationship builder
- A full driving licence
Why?
At Enable Works, our goal is to create a more equitable society where everyone has fair and equal opportunities to gain and sustain employment.
Our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion team supports employers to build inclusive practise into every area of their business and feel more confident in hiring disabled employees and supporting them in the workplace. Your professional approach, clear communication and training skills will support employers through this process.
Our culture is autonomous so that means we trust you to develop relationships with employers and schedule learning and support with them that works for their business and we need you to manage your workload and you time well.
About Us
At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.
We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:
- Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loans
Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.
Enable is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.
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