Employability Support Worker, Edinburgh - 21hrs

One Parent Families Scotland; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization focused on supporting single parents is seeking an Employability Support Worker based in Edinburgh. This role involves engaging with single parents to help them overcome barriers to employment, offering personalized support and training opportunities, and working closely with community organizations to enhance job readiness. Candidates should possess strong communication skills and a passion for social equity.

Qualifications

• Experience in community outreach and employability support.
• Ability to work with single parents facing barriers to employment.
• Strong organizational skills to handle case management.

Responsibilities

• Support single parents to enter or re-enter employment, training, or education.
• Coordinate and deliver a variety of employability activities.
• Engage with community partners to improve service access for clients.

Skills

Community Engagement

Empathy

Motivational Skills

Organizational Skills

Case Management

Job Searching Assistance

Job description

Employability Support Worker, Edinburgh – 21hrs

Last updated: 29/05/2025

Key info

Post: Employability Support Worker (fixed term until 31 st March 2028 with continuation of post dependant on funding).

Hours: 21 hours per week

Location: City of Edinburgh wide, based at OPFS Headquarters, 2 York Place. Office based with travel in and around Edinburgh as required.
Reports to: OPFS Edinburgh Regional Co-ordinator

Closing date: Sunday 22 nd June 2025 at 11.59PM. Interviews will be held Wednesday 2nd July 2025.

All roles at OPFS contribute to our mission of working with and for single parent families, providing support that enables them to achieve their potential and help create lasting solutions to the poverty and barriers facing many single parents and their children. Our core values of Justice, Equity, Trust, Collaboration and Compassion are at the heart of everything we do and underpin all aspects of our work.

Roles and responsibilities:

The Employability Support Worker will contribute to the organisation’s vision of a Scotland in which single parents and their children are valued and treated equally and fairly, by supporting the delivery of various components which contribute to the Edinburgh service, including proactively supporting single parents to enter or re-enter employment, training, or education.

The Employability Support Worker will be responsible for community engagement, outreach, and registration of parents onto the programme, and delivering quality employability support, whilst also engaging with partners in the community and undertaking employer engagement duties to improve outcomes and referral pathways for Single parents accessing the service.

They will report to the Edinburgh Regional Coordinator and will work as a member of OPFS Employability Team, within the wider OPFS Edinburgh Family Support Service, to provide employability services for single parents facing barriers to entering suitable employment.

Equal Opportunities and Family Friendly Employment

OPFS aims to be an equal opportunity and family friendly employer. OPFS has Investors In People Gold status.

This 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.

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Families: Help eligible single 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 employment, education or training and work with single parents to address those barriers.
• Liaison: Build links with health, education and third sector organisations and groups across the city to identify eligible single parents interested in progressing towards suitable employment, education, or training.
• Case Management: Maintain confidential information, complete all appropriate client paperwork. Record and document meetings and support provided to single parents.Use appropriate databases as required by OPFS and the post funder, complete quarterly reports, case studies and maintain a high level of data recording to record, monitor and evaluate targets as set by the funder.
• Work/Vocational Activities & Training: Co-ordinate and deliver a range of employability activities to support single parents facing barriers to employment to develop core knowledge and skills, helping to increase their access to available employment, training, and education opportunities. Support provided to single parents via 1:1 and group activities.
• Outreach & Engagement: Undertake activities in communities to actively reach eligible single parents as a basis to support their learning and development and engage them in early work preparation and employer matching activities to support positive change within their lives.
• Job Matching: Provide job ready single parents with the help participants need with job searching, interviews, securing and sustaining suitable employment.
• In Work Support: Provide single parents living with complex needs and facing additional barriers to employment with continued support on entering employment, to help parents 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: single parents to services that will address their needs.
• Money Advice: Offer better off calculations and access to debt support via OPFS employability service.
• 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.

Personal specifications

Terms and conditions

Further information

The closing date for applications is Sunday 22nd of June 2025 at 11:59PM. Interviews will be held Wednesday 2nd July 2025.

If you need to make an application in an alternative format on the basis of a disability or long-term health condition please email [e-mail] for guidance.