Job Description: Employability Officer

JOB DESCRIPTION: EMPLOYABILITY OFFICER

Employability Mentoring Project

Full Time (35 hours), Holidays: 25 days per year

35 hours at £22,968 Per annum

Duration:

Post will initially be until 30th June 2016, with extension subject to funding

Location:

This post will be based in Hamilton, but will require travel throughout South Lanarkshire.

Accountable to: Team Leader

Job Purpose:

To deliver a service to a high professional standard at all times.

To work with unemployed people who face considerable barriers to Employment. These barriers include: Lack of confidence; lack of qualifications and work skills; mental and / or physical health issues; history of substance misuse; experience of homelessness; history of offending behaviour.

The Employability Officer will support and provide guidance that will enable clients to move closer into the employment market and make them more job ready.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Make links with local businesses to recruit volunteer mentors and encourage opportunities for work placements and job opportunities.
• Create a link between employability programmes locally and pass this information onto mentors.
• Carry out reviews & risk assessments with both mentors and their mentees with Mentoring Co-ordinator.

• Recruit, train and support clients through employability and work readiness programme.
• Carry out a suitability & risk assessment and action plan for all participants with Mentoring Officer.
• Link with mentors in line with individual action plans.
• Link with outside agencies and identify work placements, training and opportunities which meet the needs of clients.
• Support mentees through work placements.
• Develop appropriate exit strategy for each mentees needs.
• Deliver and assess a range of Employability workshops
• Create and deliver presentations to various audiences.
• Plan and organise job search sessions with young people.
• Develop close liaisons with Job Centres; Personal Advisers; MCMC Advisors and relevant staff from partner agencies.

This post will require a full PVG Disclosure.

This job description is a broad picture of the post at the date of preparation. Post Holders may be required to carry out additional duties which are necessary to fulfil the purpose of the job, and to respond positively to changing business needs.

Employability Officer Person Specification