Employability Support Worker: Young Parents
- Part time
- £22,542 – £27,552 pro-rata
- Based within OPFS Lanarkshire and home working.
- Closing 7th August 2021
- Advertised from 23rd July 2021
- Hours: 25 hours per week. Salary: Point 13-17, £22,542 - £27,552 per annum for full time, £16104 - £19680 for 25 hours per week. Reports to: Lanarkshire Services Manager.
Role
Main Duties
The Employability Support Worker: Young Parents will be responsible to the Lanarkshire Services Manager and will provide employability support for young parents faced with additional barriers to entering suitable training, education or employment opportunities.
Specific Duties
- Case Management: Using case management methods, provide a continuum of consistent support to young parents to progress along the employability pathway journey into suitable and sustainable training and employment opportunities.
- Families: Help young parents to identify their future goals, assess motivation, develop personal development plans and help in their implementation through individual and group work.
- Barriers: Identify barriers to education, training and employment and work with young parents to address those barriers.
- Liaison: Building links with organisations and groups across North Lanarkshire, to identify young parents interested in progressing towards suitable opportunities.
- Outreach & Engagement: Undertake activities in communities to actively reach young parents as a basis to support their learning and development and engage them in early work preparation to support positive change within their lives.
- Work/Vocational Activities & Training: Co-ordinate and deliver employability programmes to enable young parents facing additional barriers to employment to develop core knowledge and skills, helping to increase their access to employment, training and education opportunities
- In Work Support: Provide young parents with continued support on entering education, training or employment, to help sustain their jobs.
- Local services: Develop knowledge of services related to employment, training, education, childcare and other support. Develop an effective network of referral agencies to support clients' needs.
- Signpost: Engage with local services that will address young parent’s needs.
- Money Advice: Liaise with OPFS Financial Inclusion team to offer better off calculations and access to debt support.
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Ensure effective recording, monitoring and evaluation procedures are implemented.
- Other Relevant duties: Carrying out any other relevant duties related to the above.
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, and it is recognised that jobs change and evolve over time.
Personal Specifications
Essential
1. Qualification: A relevant professional qualification or a good standard of education equivalent to HNC/HND, SVQ3 /4 and combined with relevant experience.
2. Knowledge of issues affecting young parents
3. Experience of group work: candidates should preferably have had experience of running groups and understand group work issues
4. Experience of liaison and partnership working with other agencies
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. IT skills commensurate to the needs of the post
7. Commitment to professional development
8. Flexibility to meet the needs of the services
Desirable:
1. Driving license and use of a vehicle:
2. Experience of work with single parents: Prior experience of work with single parent families in a voluntary sector or statutory context would be helpful.
Terms & Conditions
1. Period of appointment: The post is funded until 31st March 2023. Confirmation of appointment will be dependent on completion of a satisfactory three-month probation period, satisfactory references, and a Basic Disclosure check.
2. Salary: OPFS salary scale points 13 – 17, currently £22,542 - £27,552 for full time, £16104 - £19680 for 25 hours per week. Appointments will be made at a point reflective of previous experience.
3. Hours of work: 25 hours weekly with flexibility to meet the needs of clients.
4. Holidays: Annual leave entitlement is 25 days and 12 Public holidays for full time (35 hours a week) which will be calculated pro rata for 25 hours per week.
5. Pension: You will be auto enrolled from your start date. OPFS pays 7% of your salary and you pay a minimum of 3%.
6. Training, support, and supervision: OPFS is committed to the development of its staff through internal training and access to external training. We also have an annual staff appraisal system in place and all staff receive regular monthly support and supervision from their manager.
7. Equal Opportunities and Family Friendly Employment: OPFS aims to be an equal opportunity and family friendly employer. We have Investors in People status and Living Wage accreditation.
Application notes
Recruitment Timetable
The closing date is Saturday 7th August 2021. 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.
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Business Development Executive
- Full time
- £42,523 – £45,637
- This post is permanent full time and will mostly be home based but can utilise office bases in Glasgow or Stirling and may require some travel to meetings. (Home based)
- Closing 7th April 2024
About Aberlour…
We are a values driven organisation delivering around 50 services across Scotland supporting children, young people and families.
Our development team delivers success. We are growing year on year and are looking for the right person to help us continue our success through funding and developing new services and improving organisational sustainability to enable us to reach even more children and families.
What we are looking for...
In joining our dedicated Business Development Team, you will use your experience and knowledge of developing and coordinating tender responses and funding applications to provide a comprehensive and specialist support to the organisation. You will report directly to our Head of Business Development and work closely with specialists to negotiate their contributions and keep projects to completion deadlines.
You will have written and delivered high quality, successful public tenders, ideally in a social care or equivalent environment and have the ability to present information and ideas engaging a wide range of stakeholders.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme, life assurance worth 3x salary and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.
Senior Policy Lead (Challenging Public Debt Recovery)
- Full time
- £41,035 – £44,024
- You can complete work from home or utilise a local office base but you may be required to travel to attend meetings. (Hybrid)
- Closing 8th April 2024
This is a full-time post working 37.5 hours per week. Hours of work can be worked flexibly although there may be a requirement for some work in the evenings or at weekends. There is a 5% unsocial hours allowance included in the salary to accommodate this expectation.
You can complete work from home or utilise a local office base but you may be required to travel to attend meetings.
About Aberlour …
We are a values driven organisation delivering over 40 services across Scotland supporting children, young people and families.
We have a strong record of using knowledge and evidence from our work to campaign for the rights of children, young people and families across Scotland.
With funding provided from The Robertson Trust, we are looking to conduct a specific 3 year programme to focus on public sector debt and the impacts on low-income families.
What we are looking for...
You will collaborate with key stakeholders to explore the views and systems related to the recovery of public sector debt. You will use your research to engage with government nationally and locally to highlight the lived experiences of affected families, to seek fairer policies and commitments that help tackle child poverty.
You will help Aberlour plan and coordinate further campaigning work around the approach to public sector debt recovery.
You will have knowledge of the current Scottish political systems at a local and national level, particularly relating to social justice, anti-poverty and debt recovery policy areas. You will also have knowledge of key policy areas that impact on children and young people, such as the UNCRC and The Promise. You will have experience of writing policy briefings or papers or addressing informed and influential audiences.
Please see the job description for further details about the role along with the required qualification level.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme, life assurance worth 3x salary and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.
Policy and Participation Officer (Challenging Public Debt Recovery)
- Part time
- £37,210 – £39,900 pro-rata
- You can complete work from home or utilise a local office base but you may be required to travel to attend meetings. (Hybrid)
- Closing 14th April 2024
Please note our salaries are under review and we await confirmation of our cost of living uplift which would take effect from 1st April 2024.
This is a part-time post working 18.75 hours per week (half time). Hours of work can be worked flexibly although there may be a requirement for some work in the evenings or at weekends. There is a 5% unsocial hours allowance included in the salary to accommodate this expectation.
You can complete work from home or utilise a local office base but you may be required to travel to attend meetings.
About Aberlour …
We are a values driven organisation delivering over 40 services across Scotland supporting children, young people and families.
We have a strong record of using knowledge and evidence from our work to campaign for the rights of children, young people and families across Scotland.
We are looking to conduct a specific 3 year programme to focus on public sector debt and the impacts on low-income families.
What we are looking for...
You will support our Senior Policy Lead through identifying appropriate ways for children, young people and families to share their views and experiences around the impact of public sector debt. Your research will help frame our campaign work and ability to influence stakeholders at local and national government level.
You will have knowledge of the current Scottish political system at a national and local level with awareness of social justice and anti-poverty policy in Scotland and children and young people’s rights such as the UNCRC and The Promise. You will have experience working in the third sector along with skills in research and analysis.
Please see the job description for further details about the role along with the required qualification level.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme, life assurance worth 3x salary and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers.
Guardian x 9
- Full time
- £30,652 – £32,840
- Aberdeen, Inverness. Glasgow and Edinburgh
- Closing 31st March 2024
Aberlour Guardianship Scotland - National Child Trafficking Support Service
About Aberlour Guardianship Scotland
Guardianship Scotland is a specialist statutory service providing Independent Child Trafficking Guardians (ICTG) to all unaccompanied asylum seeking children, victims of trafficking and children vulnerable to trafficking who arrive in Scotland. We deliver this in partnership with Aberlour and Scottish Refugee Council on behalf of the Scottish Government.
The children and young people we help in Guardianship have been through unimaginable traumas. Now, they must cope with being apart from their families in a strange, new country. They face language and cultural barriers, and they enter complex systems which include the welfare, asylum and trafficking processes which are very complicated, and it can be difficult for them to understand.
We support young people to understand these processes, stand by the young peoples’ side throughout these processes, support them to access the help they need and advocate when needed to ensure their views are clearly listened to. Our guardians support the young people to make informed decisions about their future and to settle into a new life in Scotland.
Could you be the person to support children to navigate complex processes and feel empowered throughout? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team.
What we are looking for....
We are looking to recruit nine Guardians, 2 based in Aberdeen, 1 in Inverness, 2 in Edinburgh and 4 in Glasgow. This service is Scotland wide, and you will at times be required to travel to other Local Authorities. You will work 37.5 hours per week, these hours will be worked in line with the needs of the young people and service and may include evenings and weekends.
Please specify in your Supporting Statement your preferred work location.
We are looking for candidates who have a relevant professional qualification at SCQF level 8 and has, or is prepared to work towards, the Office of Immigration Services Commissioner Level 2 Registration.
You will have experience of working with young people and children, dealing with child/adult protection issues, experience of advocacy work, inter-agency and partnership working and a good knowledge or experience of the asylum systems.
At Aberlour we want to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. To have a look at our values to understand more about what we are looking for from our employeesclick here
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers. Find out more about our Employee Benefits and our commitment to Equality and Diversityhere.
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