Employability Advisor
- Full time or Part time
- £23,218 – £28,379
- Based within OPFS Lanarkshire Office with flexible and home working.
- Closing 11th August 2022
- Advertised from 11th July 2022
- Full and Part time post available
Role
The Employability Advisor will be responsible to the Lanarkshire Services Manager and will work as a member of OPFS Lanarkshire Employability Service, to provide employability support for young parents living with complex needs and facing additional barriers to entering suitable employment, education, and training opportunities through one-to-one meetings and group work sessions.
Application notes
If you are interested in working with One Parent Families Scotland, please download an application from our website opfs.org.uk and email your completed application form to jobs@opfs.org.uk Please contact info@opfs.org.uk 0131 556 3899 if you require a paper application form.
Please note that we are promoting this vacancy until 11th August 2022.
Interviews will take place on a weekly basis throughout July and August 2022.
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Employability Support Assistant (Young Parents)
- Part time
- £19,110 pro-rata
- Based at OPFS Lanarkshire Office
- Closing 11th August 2022
The Employability Support Assistant will be responsible to the Lanarkshire Service Manager and work with the Employability Advisor to deliver OPFS Lanarkshire Young Parents Employability Service. The role will include the provision of employability support, outreach activities, supporting the delivery and helping with the co-ordination and facilitation of one-to-one support meetings, group work employability sessions and training courses for young parents.
Key Tasks
Employability Support: Support the Employability Advisor to engage with young parents and promote the services available through One Parent Families Scotland by developing trusting relationships with young parents through the provision of 1:1 support meetings, providing information, advice and support to young parents engaging with the service.
Support Young Parents: to access and attend one to one meetings, local employability group work and training sessions, helping young parents to develop their confidence, skills, knowledge, and motivation to access available opportunities, and make informed and positive choices in their lives. Work with young parents to complete online forms, charitable grant applications and refer to appropriate financial inclusion services.
Employability Advisor: to help identify community resources and local services and assist young parents to engage with services, resources and agencies that will enable parents to progress into employment, education, or further training. Assist with the delivery of employability group work and training provision including, confidence building, early work preparation, volunteering, developing and building skills to access local opportunities.
Record Keeping & Reporting: Maintain confidential information, complete all appropriate client paperwork. Record and document meetings and support provided to single parents and in-put data onto OPFS database. Complete monthly reporting template and write case studies within agreed timelines.
The job description is a broad picture of the post at the time of preparation. It is not an exhaustive list of all possible duties. It is recognised that jobs change and evolve over time.
Personal specifications
Essential:
- Experience of being single parent.
- IT: Competent in word processing, spreadsheets, databases, e-mail.
- Personal attributes: (Professional), friendly, welcoming personality and an organised approach to tasks, good communication skills.
- Strong organisational skills & a team player.
Desirable:
- Services for families: Knowledge or experience of employability services for single parents in Lanarkshire
- Internet: Experience of information gathering research information from the Internet.
- Driving License: A clean driving license and access to a car
- Personal Qualities: friendly & personable manner, flexible approach to duties
Terms and conditions
- Period of appointment: Fixed term contract until 31st March 2023 with the possibility of extending (dependent on funding). Confirmation of appointment is subject to satisfactory completion of a 3-month probationary period, references, and receipt of a satisfactory disclosure check.
- Salary: Point 5: £19,100 pro rata
- Hours of work: 25 hours per week and flexible to meet the needs of the service
- Holidays: Annual leave entitlement is 25 days and 12 public holidays (Pro-rata)
- Pension: You will be auto enrolled from your start date. OPFS pays 7% of your salary and you pay a minimum of 3%
- Training and support and supervision: You will receive induction training and frequent support in the first three months. Thereafter you will receive monthly individual support and supervision and annual appraisals and attend regular team meeting. OPFS is committed to the development of its staff through internal training and access to external training.
- Equal Opportunities and Family Friendly Employment: OPFS aims to be an equal opportunity and family friendly employer. OPFS has Investors in People status and Living Wage accreditation.
Senior Welfare Rights Advisor
- Full time
- £28,629 – £34,991
- Glasgow and South Lanarkshire
- Closing 11th August 2022
To support the Financial Inclusion Lead in the delivery of high quality, efficient and effective Welfare Rights service in Glasgow, and South Lanarkshire (Rutherglen/ Cambuslang) through the provision of welfare rights advice supporting single parent families to maximise income through welfare benefit entitlements, address levels of household poverty and provide support to help with situations of crisis. To provide professional guidance and support to welfare rights staff team. All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parents providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to poverty and address the barriers facing single parents and their children.
Top job! Head of People & Culture
- Full time
- £43,863 – £50,227
- Edinburgh / Glasgow
- Closing 22nd August 2022
Children 1st is Scotland’s National Children’s Charity and since 1884 children’s safety and wellbeing have been at the heart of everything we do. We are a dynamic charity focused on leading transformational change for children so that they stay safe, happy and well in their own families and communities. That means we work tirelessly in campaigning, influencing and direct support to help families overcome all the challenges they face.
Reflecting the importance of an engaged and committed staff team and a culture of inclusion, respect and collaboration and to support our vision that children in Scotland will be safer, will grow up in strong, resilient families and have access to early help and support when they need it, we are looking to recruit into the newly created role of Head of People & Culture.
As our People and Culture Leader, you will be responsible for developing and implementing the vision to transform our HR department to be a strategic, solutions-focused, high-performing, and collaborative partner that directly supports the delivery of the organisation’s strategic aims and promotes Children 1st as an ‘employer of choice’.
We are looking for someone who has experience of transforming HR and has the appetite to do that again, in the right way, for Children 1st . With relevant experience gained across the full Human Resources and Organisational Development portfolio and demonstrating commitment to Children 1st’s vision, mission and values, the successful candidate will also bring:
- Experience of developing, implementing and managing customer and delivery-focused strategies for HR issues
- Experience of developing HR management information, including metrics development and performance reporting, which contributes to the overall performance management of the organisation
- The ability to develop strategies and policies, translate into operational actions and articulate good HR practice in a jargon-free and accessible way
- Successful partnership working, specifically the ability to effectively engage with and manage relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
If you share our passion and vision for a happy, healthy, safe and secure childhood for every child and young person in Scotland we would be delighted to receive an application from you.
Support & Participation Coordinator(s)
- Part time
- £27,775 pro-rata
- North and West of Scotland
- Closing 23rd August 2022
With the development of a new innovative project working with families affected by imprisonment, using their life experience and skills to support other family members who have had a relative in prison, Families Outside is now looking for creative and confident individuals to join us.
Who are we?
Families Outside is the only national charity in Scotland that works solely to support families affected by imprisonment. We are dedicated to providing a range of practical, social and emotional support to children, young people and other family members with someone in prison. This support is relationship-based, prison-aware, and family-focused.
What do we want?
We are now recruiting for the three following posts:
- Support & Participation Coordinator (West) x 28 hours to cover Glasgow, W.Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire and N.Ayrshire areas
- Support & Participation Coordinator (North) x 21 hours to cover Perth & Kinross, Aberdeen and Inverness areas
Each Coordinator will be responsible for developing a wide-ranging support and participation programme, working alongside family members with a relative in prison. At a time of growth for our organisation this is an exciting opportunity to work in collaboration with a small team, with responsibility for delivering local, targeted support for wider family participation and engagement. The right candidate(s) will develop, facilitate and evaluate engagement with families, develop resources and materials, and support and manage volunteers.
With experience of working with children, young people and families in the community, the Support & Participation Coordinators will also have experience of planning and delivering group work, as well as the ability to work independently but also committed to working with and supporting others as part of a wider team.
We are looking for individuals who can work flexibly and can demonstrate a strong understanding and commitment to our organisational values. If this is something that is of interest, we want to hear from you.
What are the benefits of working with Families Outside?
In return for all of the above, we offer a wide range of staff benefits including hybrid working, travel expenses, access to a pension scheme, laptop and mobile phone and 25 days paid holiday plus 10 public holidays (pro rata).
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